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The Essay Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s Episodes

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  1. Joan Williams

    Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?

  2. Philip Roth

    How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.

  3. Norman Mailer

    Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.

  4. Amiri Baraka

    How poet and playwright Amiri Baraka cancelled himself in a single public appearance.

  5. William Styron

    Should a white man write about a black revolutionary?