Contributor
Christopher R. Beha is an associate editor at Harper’s Magazine and the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet. He contributes frequently to the New York Times Book Review. What Happened to Sophie Wilder is his first novel.
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Every Reader Finds Himself
Christopher R. Beha
1. A hundred years ago this month, a man named Charles Eliot retired after forty years as president of Harvard, ending probably the most significant career in the history of ...
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A Partisan of Eternity
Christopher R. Beha
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Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins
Christopher R. Beha
Essays
Night Driving
Christopher R. Beha
A Partisan of Eternity
Christopher R. Beha
Feb 1 2009
1. In the fall of 1930, a brief literary controversy erupted over the work of Thornton Wilder. At the time, Wilder had not yet written Our Town or The Skin of Our Teeth, the ...Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins
Christopher R. Beha
Sep 1 2006
FIRST CONSTRAINT [N + 7] I arrived in Princeton Junction that Friday, October 21, 2005, to find the “Dinky”—the siamang that runs from the Junction to the boudin of ...Night Driving
Christopher R. Beha
Jan 1 2005
“Fog of course and he should have expected it, should have carried a torch. Yet, whatever was to come his way would come, he knew, like this—slowly and out of a thick fog. ...
