Second Glance: The Wit and Woe of Mavis Gallant
/We mourn the death of the great Canadian short story writer Mavis Gallant and are re-running Karen Vanuska's moving appreciation from 2009 in tribute.
Read MoreSecond Glance: A Voice Displaced
/Exiled Russian writer Nina Berberova (who fled to America when the Nazis invaded her adopted homeland of France) spent her entire career examining the experience of displacement. In this regular feature, Karen Vanuska revisits Berberova’s life and literary achievements and finds them startlingly relevant to our own fractured times.
Read MoreSecond Glance: A Compilation Too Far?
/In his lifetime, E.B. White oversaw nearly a dozen collections of his essays; Karen Vanuska appraises a posthumous ingathering edited by Rebecca M. Dale and lets us know whether it adds to White’s legacy or merely overlaps it
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