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The Terror of Mediocrity
On Andrew Ewell's 'Set for Life'
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Blake Smith
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Longing for Something Sacred
On Rumaan Alam's 'Entitlement'
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Stephen G. Adubato
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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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6
Indie, Please
On Daniel Falatko's 'The Wayback Machine'
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Ross Barkan
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9
The Man Without a Past
On the Sublimity of Jay Gatsby
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George Monaghan
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4
Up Close With the Beauty of Gatsby
On Teaching and Reading an American Classic
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Emma B Heath
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13
America the Beautiful
'The Great Gatsby' as Romantic Poetry
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John Pistelli
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10
Childhood Is Over
On Adam Ross' 'Playworld'
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Jonah Allon
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6
Tragedy and Its Discontents
On Moshe Zvi Marvit's 'Nothing Vast'
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Raina Lipsitz
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19
'Ten Years of Useless Labor'
On Danzy Senza's 'Colored Television'
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Jon Repetti
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7
Stalking the Trillion-Footed Digital Beast
On Udith Dematagoda's 'Agonist'
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GD Dess
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2
Interstellar Ineptitude
On Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital'
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Adam Pearson
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14
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