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Stephen Burt

Stephen Burt is a poet and critic and a professor of English at Harvard.

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Part Thoreau, Part Princess

How The Hunger Games combines the wilderness survival tale with the Cinderella story—and subverts them both.

Stephen Burt | CULTUREBOX | Thursday, March 22, 2012, at 1:15 PM

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Spring Books in Brief

What Slate's reading this spring.

Jack Shafer, June Thomas, Reza Aslan, Stephen Burt, Amanda Fortini, Nathan Heller, Melinda Henneberger, Troy Patterson, David Plotz, John Swansburg, and Justin Taylor | BOOKS | Friday, May 2, 2008, at 7:07 AM

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Winter Books

What Slate is reading this winter.

Paul Berman, June Thomas, Stephen Burt, Tyler Cowen, Amanda Fortini, Melinda Henneberger, Christine Kenneally, Megan Marshall, Troy Patterson, Jess Row, Amanda Schaffer, and Laura Shapiro | BOOKS | Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, at 7:29 AM

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Sarah's Antidote

Is the J.T. Leroy scandal what you think it is?

Stephen Burt | CULTUREBOX | Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at 1:08 PM

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Dulles Access Road

Stephen Burt | POEM | Tuesday, March 13, 2007, at 7:20 AM

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Surprising Powers

Richard Powers' scientific humanism.

Stephen Burt | BOOK BLITZ | Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, at 11:03 AM

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The Paradox of Howl

The anti-establishment poem's debt to the established past.

Stephen Burt | BOOKS | Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at 6:44 AM

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The Poet of Dirty Words

History takes a second look at Philip Larkin.

Stephen Burt | BOOKS | Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 4:00 PM

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Paper Trail

The true legacy of Marianne Moore, modernist monument.

Stephen Burt | BOOKS | Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003, at 11:49 AM

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Stephen Burt

Part Thoreau, Part Princess

How The Hunger Games combines the wilderness survival tale with the Cinderella story—and subverts them both.

Spring Books in Brief

What Slate's reading this spring.

Winter Books

What Slate is reading this winter.

Sarah's Antidote

Is the J.T. Leroy scandal what you think it is?

Dulles Access Road

Surprising Powers

Richard Powers' scientific humanism.

The Paradox of Howl

The anti-establishment poem's debt to the established past.

The Poet of Dirty Words

History takes a second look at Philip Larkin.

Paper Trail

The true legacy of Marianne Moore, modernist monument.

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