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Joan Williams
Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?

Philip Roth
How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.

Norman Mailer
Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.

Amiri Baraka
How poet and playwright Amiri Baraka cancelled himself in a single public appearance.

William Styron
Should a white man write about a black revolutionary?