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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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11/22/2021

An Elegy for the Working Class

Examining the working-class artists in Cynthia Cruz's The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

by Rhoda Feng

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01/18/2019

Prevalent Protagonists

A review of Richard Burgin’s A Thousand Natural Shocks: A Collection of Stories

by Lynn Levin

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01/11/2019

Lost Time

A review of Shannon Withycombe’s Lost

by Melinda Lewis

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10/16/2017

The Yunique Yuichi

Yokoyama’s Iceland mystifies and entertains.

by Chris Mautner

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10/26/2016

My Hero, Satan

Why John Milton’s Satan is the true hero

by Stephen Akey

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10/23/2015

Jonathan Franzen is Worse Than Prison

Plus: Insect expectations and a sketchy success

by Maren Larsen

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10/01/2015

Vegetaballs

by The Smart Set Staff

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06/17/2010

The Wise Men (and Women!)

Can we understand wisdom?

by Jessa Crispin

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06/03/2010

Plotting Along

You think women's fiction is improving, and then the rug is pulled.

by Jessa Crispin

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