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Eric Ormsby reviews “The Clay Sanskrit Library,” co-published by New York University Press.

Eric Ormsby on the collected novels and stories of William Maxwell.

Eric Ormsby on “Flaubert: A Biography” by Frederick Brown.

Burns night has been and gone, but poetry is for every night, and day. It’s a source of solace, comfort and cheer in difficult times like this current pandemic and lockdown So here, to help you through, are twenty of Scotland’s greatest poets, who aren’t Robert Burns. William Dunbar (circa 1459-1530) “Back to Dunbar!” was a favourite phrase of Hugh MacDiarmid, and the man he was talking about was a Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV, who wrote works that were rhet...