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Book reviews

Styron’s heavy freight

Sex, guilt, and the Holocaust too

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Collective dread

The literature of doom

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History enhanced

Lives in the present perfect

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The traffic in words

No place for the avant-garde

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Pretenders to power

The pen is not the sword

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Biological imperative

Writing about science for laymen

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Victims of Yalta

The fatal repatriation of Russian soldiers

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Impetus and invention

Poetic tradition and the individual talent

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