Results for "Benfey, Christopher"

Jerome Liebling, one of our foremost documentary photographers, has created a remarkable photographic record of the domestic environment of Emily Dickinson. As a fellow resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, Liebling was naturally drawn to the Homestead, the house in which Dickinson lived and worked...

One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine...

The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller

"You're as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw."

So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardiner's virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in a...

The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller

"You're as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw."

So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardiner's virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in a...

Edgar Degas traveled from Paris to New Orleans during the fall of 1872 to visit the American branch of his mother's family, the Mussons. This war-torn, diverse, and conflicted city elicited from Degas some of his finest paintings. He arrived at a key moment in the cultural history of this most...

In this well-crafted study, Christopher E. G. Benfey seeks to demonstrate the depth and coherence of Dickinson's thinking. He is concerned primarily with Dickinson's relation to skepticism, and he shows how her poems provide responses to the claim that we do not have access to the natural world or...