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Edmund White, this year’s winner of the Pen/Bellow prize, is the author, most recently, of “The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading.”

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2018

This essay was drawn from “The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading,” out this month from Bloomsbury.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

I’m writing a book about a life of reading now and it’s called “The Unpunished Vice.”

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2016

Holmes was interviewed by Britain’s Channel 4 for a documentary that aired yesterday called Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished.

From Time • Mar. 16, 2012

Ne'er shall so weak and vile a thing Unpunished brave the giants' king.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)