February 8, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingJean Malaquais and the life of a novel by JULIA ELSKY This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Researching the life of a novel means uncovering the traces of how it was written—not only the edits, corrections, and additions made to a manuscript, but also the conversations in letters or in diaries that show… read more