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A semi-monthly journal of ideas, literature, and culture, founded in 1963.
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Doomed in Their Sinking
Gass's meditation on the nature of failure — literary, personal, historical — argues that sinking is not the opposite of achievement but its necessary companion and condition.
Doomed in Their Sinking
The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
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Doomed in Their Sinking
Doomed in Their Sinking
Gass's meditation on the nature of failure — literary, personal, historical — argues that sinking is not the opposite of achievement but its necessary companion and condition.
William H. Gass·Culture·1975
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The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
Written in the days after King's assassination, Hardwick's account of the Washington funeral procession meditates on martyrdom, grief, and what America does with its prophets.
Elizabeth Hardwick·Race·1968
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