The American Scholar Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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If the 800-odd pages of Paul Auster's magisterial new biography of Stephen Crane intimidate you, whet your appetite with our 28-minute conversation about why everyone should read more than "The Red Badge of Courage" (though you should read that, too). https://t.co/4E6ek6X7uY

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In honor of Mother’s Day this Sunday, we’re returning to our 2015 essay on the strains of motherhood that society is often afraid to confront. "There isn’t enough empathy... when you aren’t Supermom," writes psychiatrist Jean Kim. https://theamericanscholar.org/the-case-for-motherhood/?utm_source=social_media&medium=twitter

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For this week’s Read Me a Poem, Amanda Holmes reads the eighth stanza of the sixteenth part of “Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. https://t.co/IG3BKvwdUi

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Marianne Moore’s poems can read like a puzzle, the meaning of the words in playful tension with the structure—as in “Nevertheless,” read here by Amanda Holmes: https://t.co/waFtqcTYCx

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One of Germany’s most important lyric poets, Heinrich Heine is best known for his BOOK OF SONGS, published in 1827. Listen to Amanda Holmes read “I Bear No Grudge,” one of the poems from this collection: https://t.co/pNUrv64FbF

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If the 800-odd pages of Paul Auster's magisterial new biography of Stephen Crane intimidate you, whet your appetite with our 28-minute conversation about why everyone should read more than "The Red Badge of Courage" (though you should read that, too). https://t.co/4E6ek6X7uY

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One of Germany’s most important lyric poets, Heinrich Heine is best known for his BOOK OF SONGS, published in 1827. Listen to Amanda Holmes read “I Bear No Grudge,” one of the poems from this collection: https://t.co/pNUrv64FbF

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.@azarnafisi, author of the bestselling memoir READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN, now lives in the U.S. but “continues to use literary texts to understand herself.” Read @SGKellman’s review of Nafisi’s new book, READ DANGEROUSLY (@deystreet). https://theamericanscholar.org/found-in-translation-2/?utm_source=social_media&medium=twitter

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.@azarnafisi, author of the bestselling memoir READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN, now lives in the U.S. but “continues to use literary texts to understand herself.” Read @SGKellman’s review of Nafisi’s new book, READ DANGEROUSLY (@deystreet). https://theamericanscholar.org/found-in-translation-2/?utm_source=social_media&medium=twitter

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“Jean Rhys conceived WIDE SARGASSO SEA, in part, as a rebuttal to Charlotte Brontë’s JANE EYRE—to its demeaning depiction of the island-born Mrs. Rochester as deranged. Ironically, Rhys had played that role herself often enough.” https://t.co/ywwAvmbkfP