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Book reviews

Breaking the line

The bard of Newark's department stores

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Blackboard art

The novel goes to school

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The train to Kompong Sam

Seeing the world with Thomas Cook

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Plato in Vermont

The ideal tree, and how to count it

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Mind reading

The forgotten Freud

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Lots of mots

Eighty-five hours with Mr. Proust

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Pony or Pegasus

The problem of mistranslation

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Saki’s world

Killer elks and tyrannical aunts

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The new irrelevance

Specialists in the noncontroversial

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August 1981

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