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American fiction

The not-so-great American novel

by Sarah Heekin,

by Charles Baxter,

Blame the presidents

by Bruce Bair,

by Stanley Elkin,

by Harper’s Staff,

by Tom Wolfe,

A literary manifesto for the new social novel

by James Wolcott,

The well-deserved resurrection of Jean Stafford

by James Wolcott,

Norman Mailer finally gets his Egyptian novel out of his system

by James Wolcott,

Muscle-bound and Manhattan-bound

by Bryan F. Griffin,

Getting Cheever while he's hot

by Richard Condon,