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A cool heat

The intrepid genius of Edmund Wilson

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Misery’s fogs

Is depression a diagnosis or a distraction?

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A world unto himself

The reward of waiting for a debut novel

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Markets gone wild

American history and the myth of free trade

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Make it newish

E.E. Cummings, plagiarism, and the perils of originality

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Day-tripper

The mundane raptures of Ian McEwan

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Many types of ambiguity

The enigma of Ingeborg Bachmann

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Ready-made rebellion

The empty tropes of transgressive fiction

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The cat came back

Alpha predators and the new wilderness

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The pen or the gun

Zakes Mda and the post-apartheid novel

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The pages of sin

Indulging in the seven deadlies

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Lucky Berlin

Isaiah's adventures on campus

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The anti-profiler

The verbal burlesque of A.J. Liebling

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The Right Quagmire

Searching history for an imperial alibi

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