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Library of America remembers Life Trustee J. D. McClatchy, 1945–2018
The poet, critic, editor, and educator was an essential member of the LOA family whose close involvement with the organization stretched back over two decades.

Claire Messud on the new Laura Ingalls Wilder bio, for @nybooks: "perhaps few of us know to what degree the books have been part of the culture wars."
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Pulitzer winner Caroline Fraser on the “deep and unresolved tensions” in the Little House books
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Michelle Dean’s Sharp celebrates ten women writers who did it their way
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Reinhold Niebuhr combined “tough-minded political realism with a sympathetic understanding of society’s injustices”
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Kate Chopin, “Her Letters”

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Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment LOA N°307
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (boxed set)
Norman Mailer: The Sixties (boxed set)
Basketball: Great Writing About America’s Game
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems LOA N°304

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