William Deresiewicz Books
A Jane Austen Education
Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma—and every...
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As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think crit...
Read MoreLiberties Journal of Culture and Politics
By David Nirenberg, Henri Cole, Ingrid Rowland, Vladimir Kara Murza, Benjamin Moser, Leon Wieseltier, Enrique Krauze, William Deresiewicz, Paul Starr, Peter Phillips, Paul Muldoon, Celeste Marcus, Agnes Callard, Thomson David, Mitchell Abidor, Giles Kepel, Becca Rothfeld, Hayyim Nahman Bialik
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