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Between insanity and fat dullness
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How I became an Emersonian

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I wonder whether they still make kids read that Stephen Spender poem, the one that begins “I think continually of those who were truly great.” I never liked that poem, as…

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Bellow in purgatory
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The middle novels

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Next Year in Cleveland
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Soviet Jewry's exodus and diaspora

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Heartache and the Thousand Natural Shocks
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Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom

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Magic lantern
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The illuminations of Tove Jansson

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What is the worth of social democracy?

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The white side of history
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Sketches of a Caucasian past

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Speed of light in a vacuum
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Tom McCarthy's historical avant-garde

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Fastidious Albion
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Postwar Britain keeps calm, carries on

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Firecrackers
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Terry Castle celebrates her independence

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The moviegoer
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Manny Farber in the cinema trenches

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Call it Sleek
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The gentrification of Henry Roth

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World wide web
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The myth and reality of the United Nations

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Reeled the mind
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Henry Luce's decline and fall

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Goodbye very much
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The many lives of Muriel Spark

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From the pencil zone
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Robert Walser's masterworklets

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Cultivated hysteria
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The noir novels of David Peace

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Use your disillusion
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Arthur Koestler in the age of extremes

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A Kink in His Crock
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Norway’s Nobel Nazi

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