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Longing for Something Sacred
On Rumaan Alam's 'Entitlement'
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Stephen G. Adubato
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The Future of the American Novel
Meditations on What Comes Next
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Ross Barkan
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Underground Cinema
A Short Story About Love and Death
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Philip Traylen
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8
A World Beyond Words
On Gints Zilbalodis' 'Flow'
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Daniella Nichinson
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5
The Last Colossus
On Cynthia Ozick's 'In a Yellow Wood'
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Adam Kosan
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April 2025

Great American Psycho
On the Film and Novel, 25 Years Later
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Adrian Nguyen
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6
The Rocket Never Landed
On Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17'
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Andrew Bell
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7
Substack and the American Novel
On Jarett Kobek's Oeuvre, and the New World Before Us
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Matthew Specktor
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25
The Pain of Passing
On Mayukh Sen's 'Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star'
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Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed
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2
Tiny
A Short Story About Brothers and Betrayal
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Mark Chiusano
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6
American Faust
On Ali Abbasi's 'The Apprentice'
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Brian Pascus
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16
The Gray Man Theory
On Graydon Carter's 'When the Going Was Good'
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Henry Begler
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