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Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Berthold Biermann

R. P. Blackmur
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges
Christine Brooke-Rose

Christine Brooke-Rose
Can Xue

Can Xue
Hayden Carruth

Hayden Carruth
David Daiches

David Daiches
Michael Davidson

Michael Davidson
Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda

José Maria de Eça de Queirós
William Empson

William Empson
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Christine Froula

Christine Froula
Lars Gustafsson

Lars Gustafsson
Michael Hamburger

Michael Hamburger
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
Richard Howard

Richard Howard
Irving Howe

Irving Howe
Henry James

Henry James
Kono Taeko

Kono Taeko
Carlton Lake

Carlton Lake
James Laughlin

James Laughlin
D. H.  Lawrence

D. H.  Lawrence
Herbert Leibowitz

Herbert Leibowitz

Harry Levin
Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey

Javier Marías
Jeffery Meyers

Jeffery Meyers
Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale
Ottilie Mulzet

Ottilie Mulzet
Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz
Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff
Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips
Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound
Qian Zhongshu

Qian Zhongshu
John Ransom

John Ransom
Herbert Read

Herbert Read
Kenneth Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth
Enid Starkie

Enid Starkie
George Steiner

George Steiner
Walter Sutton

Walter Sutton
Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi
Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn
Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling
Martin Turnell

Martin Turnell
John Updike

John Updike
Luis Verissimo

Luis Verissimo
Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas
Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."