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Raritan Quarterly

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Welcome to Raritan, a journal of wide-ranging inquiry that offers writers and readers the opportunity for sustained reflection and aesthetic pleasure, uncluttered by academic jargon. Founded in 1981 by the distinguished literary critic Richard Poirier, and supported by Rutgers University, Raritan aims to reach the common reader in everyone and to provide a particular experience of reading, one that nurtures an engaged and questioning approach to cultural texts of all sorts: literary, artistic, political, historical, sociological, even scientific. Our contributors include some of the most prominent thinkers of our time, as well as talented younger writers whose voices we have just begun to hear.

Selections from our Current Issue

Longfellow's Echoes
John Hay

Paul Flemming, the protagonist of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's novel Hyperion (1839), is a young man shattered by grief after the death of his lover.

Black and White and Red All Over (Mixed media on panel)
James E. Dupree
Saying It
Anne Kenner

"Do you want to meet Sharon?" my important friend asked, as if he were offering me dessert. "Okay," I said, although I didn't, not ever, and certainly not at the end of a tedious dinner...

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Fall 2023
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