William Deresiewicz
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William Deresiewicz is an American author, essayist, and literary critic, who taught English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008. He is the author of A Jane Austen Education, Excellent Sheep, The Dea
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The Atlantic
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The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1857 in Boston as The Atlantic Monthly, it began as a literary and cultural magazine that publish
William Deresiewicz
…Society (2022). His criticism directed to a popular audience has appeared in The Nation, The American Scholar, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harper's. Deresiewicz was born in 1964 in Englewood, New Jersey. His father, Herbert Deresiewicz, emigrated from Czechoslovakia and was a professor…
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James Russell Lowell, the first editor of The Atlantic
In February 1862, The Atlantic was first to publish the "Battle Hymn of the Republic".