Melville's sacramental style -- Thoreau faces death -- The little woman who started the great war -- The two Lincolns -- Henry Adams and the end of the world -- The short, unhappy life of Stephen Crane -- Was Kate Chopin a feminist? -- Lyrical Dreiser -- What would Edith Wharton think? -- The new Native Son -- The political incorrectness of Zora Neale Hurston -- Reading for pleasure.
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