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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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Life After Ahab
On Rodrigo Fresán’s 'Melvill'
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Andrew Schenker
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1
The Social Pornography Complex
On Rufi Thorpe’s 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles'
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Denise S. Robbins
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2
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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11
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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15
Great American Allusions
On John Pistelli's 'Major Arcana'
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Vincenzo Barney
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13
New York Groove
On Matthew Gasda's 'The Sleepers'
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Stuart Ross
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7
The Performance of Life
On Katie Kitamura's Recent Novels
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A. Jay Adler
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5
There Is No Real Lolita
On Neige Sinno's 'Sad Tiger'
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Kyle Berlin
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6
The Terror of Mediocrity
On Andrew Ewell's 'Set for Life'
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Blake Smith
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25
Longing for Something Sacred
On Rumaan Alam's 'Entitlement'
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Stephen G. Adubato
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5
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