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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright and More Information
Dedication
Contents
Preface
I. Ancients
Girl, Interrupted: How Gay Was Sappho?
Deep Frieze: What Does the Parthenon Mean?
Ecstasy and Terror: The Modernity of Euripides’ Bacchae
Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Antigone
JFK, Tragedy, Myth: Classical Paradigms and National Trauma
Epic Fail?: Reading the Aeneid in the Twenty-First Century
As Good as Great Poetry Gets: Cavafy Between Poetry and History
II. MODERNS
The Last Minstrel: Henry Roth’s Tormented Life and Work
Brideshead, Revisited: Getting Waugh Wrong
Hail, Augustus!: History and Character in John Williams’s Fiction
Weaving New Patterns: The Autobiographical Novels of Ingmar Bergman
The End of the Road: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Final Journey
The Women and the Thrones: George R. R. Martin’s Feminist Epic on TV
The Robots Are Winning!: Homer, Ex Machina, and Her
A Whole Lotta Pain: Hanya Yanagihara and the Aesthetics of Victimhood
I, Knausgård: Fact, Fiction, and the Führer
III. PERSONALS
The American Boy: An Author, a Young Reader, and a Life-Changing Correspondence
Stopping in Vilna: Stendhal Meets the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
The Countess and the Schoolboy: Coming of Age in Charlottesville
A Critic’s Manifesto
Acknowledgments
Biographical Notes
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