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Christopher Benfey

Christopher Benfey, the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke, is the editor of Lafcadio Hearn’s American Writings (Library of America).

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May 8, 2014
Christopher Benfey
Gustave Flaubert Was Not A Realist
March 1, 2014
Christopher Benfey
Malcolm Cowley Was One of the Best Literary Tastemakers of the Twentieth Century. Why Were His Politics So Awful?
December 6, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Rudyard Kipling Was a Great American
October 13, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Willa Cather’s Correspondence Reveals Something New
The rage of a great American novelist
June 3, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Michael Cardew: The Potter as Great Modern Artist
March 4, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Becoming T. S. Eliot, for Better and for Worse
Eliot's Letters from 1926-1927
October 5, 2012
Christopher Benfey
Tarzan turns 100
June 7, 2012
Christopher Benfey
The Alibi of Ambiguity
November 23, 2011
Christopher Benfey
The Blooming Foreigner
October 7, 2011
Christopher Benfey
In Praise of Tranströmer the Transformer—and His Translator, Robert Bly
March 1, 2011
Christopher Benfey
A Birthday Card for Richard Wilbur
February 10, 2011
Christopher Benfey
The Embroiderer
October 21, 2010
Christopher Benfey
Stand By Your Whale!
April 26, 2010
Christopher Benfey
Fights
March 13, 2010
Christopher Benfey
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit
January 18, 2010
Christopher Benfey
The Hunger Artists
June 3, 2009
Christopher Benfey
The Way of Distortion
A review of "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor" by Brad Gooch
December 3, 2008
Christopher Benfey
The American Loneliness
October 8, 2008
Christopher Benfey
Sing for Me, Muse, the Mania
February 27, 2008
Christopher Benfey
A Close Shave

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