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Joan Williams
Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?
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Philip Roth
How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.
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Norman Mailer
Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.
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Amiri Baraka
How poet and playwright Amiri Baraka cancelled himself in a single public appearance.
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William Styron
Should a white man write about a black revolutionary?