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Morris Dickstein teaches English and theater at the Graduate Center of
the City University of New York. His most recent book is A Mirror in the
Roadway: Literature and the Real World (Princeton).
Mary McCarthy would have turned 90 on June 21, a fact that is itself astonishing to those who remember her flagrant youth, when her sharp style made her the most feared and forthright writer in New York.