Auden, Salinger, and the Importance of Literary Biography
In an age when literary biography counts for so little, these two writers are not taking their subjects for granted — asserting that we should, in other words, be interested in them or interested in them again.

‘The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England’
By Nicholas Jenkins
Belknap Press, 768 pages
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