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On the Secrets of Isaac Babel  

Steven J. Zipperstein ▪ Summer 2003

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel; edited by Nathalie Babel; translated by Peter Constantine W.W. Norton, 2001, 1076 pp., $45.00 He was a squat man. He wore thick glasses. Photographs captured him badly-none make it clear why …



Good-bye to All That? Elegies for the Book  

Steven J. Zipperstein ▪ Spring 2025

Near the beginning of A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance, an obscure, despondent literary scholar, Roland Mitchell, has a thought that will preoccupy him throughout the remainder of the book. It will inspire his subsequent growth as an intellectual …



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