A couple who are good friends of mine (who happen to be white) spent the weekend shopping for apartments in Brooklyn and Harlem. While looking at a 1-bedroom in Crown Heights:
"This is the last apartment in the building to turn over. All the 'bad' people are gone, and now the building is full of 'good' people like you."
Helen Vendler, 1933 - 2024
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Helen Vendler, perhaps the preeminent contemporary American poetry critic,
has passed away at 90.
Here are obits from the Boston Globe and the NYT; a brief...