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"Havel's Specter," The Nation, 9 April 2012
An Introduction to "A Game of Hide-and-Seek," 14 February 2012
"Fair and Balanced," The Nation, 6 February 2012
"Lost in the Meritocracy," New York Times Book Review, 1 May 2011
"Tea and Antipathy," The New Yorker, 20/27 December 2010
"The Early Literature of New York's Moneyed Class," The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, 2010
"Beer Buddies," Bookforum, February/March 2010
"Terms of Infringement," The National (Abu Dhabi), 21 January 2010
"Semantic Time Travel," New York Times Magazine, 10 January 2010
"Against Camel Case," New York Times Magazine, 29 November 2009

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Peter has written a culture diary for the Paris Review blog. The first installment ran yesterday; part two is imminent.

In other news, an MP3 of "Melville's Secrets," the lecture I gave last week about Moby-Dick, sperm, and industrial capitalism, is now downloadable from SUNY Geneseo's website.

Posted by Caleb Crain on Thursday, 30 September 2010 at 06:15 AM in Herman Melville, marriage, reading habits | Permalink

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This blog is written by Caleb Crain. There's an email address for me at the top of my bio page. For older posts on this blog, please check the online archives. A selection of the blog's posts, spanning six years, has also been collected as a book, titled The Wreck of the Henry Clay.

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