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Not All Husbands
On Sarah Manguso’s ‘Liars’ and the Iterative Politics of Marriage
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Elizabeth Grace Matthew
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I Won :)
A Short Story About Glory and Shame
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HAROLD
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How to Write Successfully About Sex
On the Literature of Our Human Condition
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John Julius Reel
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Model Collapse
On Jesse Armstrong's 'Mountainhead'
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Katya Grishakova
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The Art of Letting Go
On Bill Burr's 'Drop Dead Years'
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Peter James
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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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