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Rick Atkinson on Cornelius Ryan’s “vivid, visceral, riveting” histories of World War II
The editor of LOA’s new Ryan edition discusses why, out of the thousands of books published about the war, Ryan’s have endured.

Walt Whitman's late-life thoughts reveal a "deeply brave man" facing illness and looming mortality with courage and optimism. Brenda Wineapple in our latest interview:
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Watch: Why Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day isn’t “victors’ history”
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Stifled yearnings and bittersweet small-town comedy in Alice Adams
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Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
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“She was a writer, and her subject was movies”—new documentary celebrates Pauline Kael ahead of her 100th birthday

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What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (boxed set)
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The Great American Sports Page
Walt Whitman Speaks
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