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Forgetting Atticus Finch
Rereading Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman'
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Michael Goodwin Hilton
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The Risk of Serialized Reality
On 'Big Fiction' and 'The New Seriality'
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Mesha Maren
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Mal du Siècle: The New Romanticism and the Sickness of the Age
A Meditation on the Here and Now
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Udith Dematagoda
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In the Course of Developing Pet Names
A Short Story About New Love and Old Dogs
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Courtney Sender
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Life After Ahab
On Rodrigo Fresán’s 'Melvill'
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Andrew Schenker
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The Social Pornography Complex
On Rufi Thorpe’s 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles'
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Denise S. Robbins
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The Thinking Machine
On Dean Kissick, Paul Lynch, Claire Keegan, Leon Trotsky, and Art Today
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Robbie Herbst
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A Flight From Slow, Sad Reality
On Scott Spires' 'Social Distancing'
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Adam Pearson
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3
The French Exception
On Laurent Binet and French Literature
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Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
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Cinema's Last Great Gamble
On Three New Films, ‘Warfare,’ ‘Sinners’ and ‘Friendship'
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Mo_Diggs
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May 2025

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