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Wendy Lesser

Wendy Lesser is an American critic, editor, and author, and the founding editor of The Threepenny Review, the Berkeley literary quarterly she has run since 1980. She has written a dozen books — criticism spanning art, music, dance, theater, and reading itself, along with a novel — and her biographies of Louis Kahn and Jerome Robbins have won wide acclaim, including the Marfield Prize.

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13 books
Cover of You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

2017

Lesser traces the life of architect Louis Kahn — immigrant childhood in Philadelphia, late-blooming genius, death in Penn Station — moving between the biography and on-site accounts of his luminous buildings, from the Salk Institute to Dhaka's National Assembly.

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Cover of Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery

Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery

2020

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Cover of Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance

Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance

2018

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Cover of Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

2014

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Cover of Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

2011

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Cover of Room for Doubt

Room for Doubt

2007

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Cover of The Pagoda in the Garden

The Pagoda in the Garden

2005

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Cover of Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering

Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering

2002

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Cover of The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters

The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters

1999

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Cover of A Director Calls

A Director Calls

1997

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Cover of Pictures at an Execution: An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder

Pictures at an Execution: An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder

1993

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Cover of His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art

His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art

1991

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Cover of The Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History

The Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History

1987

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