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The intrepid genius of Edmund Wilson
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Is depression a diagnosis or a distraction?
The trouble with Nietzsche
Robert Lowell's revealing letters
The reward of waiting for a debut novel
American history and the myth of free trade
E.E. Cummings, plagiarism, and the perils of originality
The mundane raptures of Ian McEwan
The enigma of Ingeborg Bachmann
The empty tropes of transgressive fiction
Alpha predators and the new wilderness
Capturing India's impossible city
Zakes Mda and the post-apartheid novel
Indulging in the seven deadlies
Isaiah's adventures on campus
The verbal burlesque of A.J. Liebling
Searching history for an imperial alibi
The politics of sin and secularism
Armageddon in an age of entertainment
On why all writing is travel writing
The curious phenomenon of Borges
The bloody history of the Lone Star State
The rise and fall of the American superhero
When horror invades protocol
J.M. Coetzee and the art of lucidity
Fundamentalism goes to Hollywood
The realism of Natalia Ginzburg
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