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Summer 2000

Summer 2000 cover of Columbia Magazine
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Da Ponte, MacDowell, Moore, and Lang

Four biographical essays by Jack Beeson

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Joseph Wood Krutch: a Rare Critic
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Joseph Wood Krutch: a Rare Critic

Krutch's classes were filled with entertainment, wit, and information as well as critical insights

Joseph Wood Krutch as a Cultural Critic
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Joseph Wood Krutch as a Cultural Critic

Though he may well be remembered most for his remarkable nature writing, it was as a cultural critic that Krutch gained his earliest recognition

In the Desert With Joseph Krutch
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In the Desert With Joseph Krutch

In the last years of his productive life Krutch had become a lover of lizards and a confidant of coyotes

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