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American Warfare
On Richard Beck's 'Homeland'
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Adam Fleming Petty
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The Last Colossus
On Cynthia Ozick's 'In a Yellow Wood'
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Adam Kosan
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6
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
The Gray Man Theory
On Graydon Carter's 'When the Going Was Good'
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Henry Begler
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20
The Town Where Journeys End
On 'The Inland Sea'
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William Lambert
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Ross Douthat's Sandbox Universe
On 'Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious'
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Gemma Mason
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34
The Moral Authority of a Body
On Kate Manne's 'Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia'
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Justin Smith-Ruiu
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16
Toward a Sordid Utopia?
On Becca Rothfeld's 'All Things Are Too Small'
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Julius Taranto
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9
Desperado Dadaism
On a New Biography of Terry Allen
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Henry Begler
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10
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