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Book reviews

A Tone Licked Clean

by Laura Miller,

Fairy tales and the roots of literature

The Humble Vernacular

by Dan Chiasson,

A word-of-mouth dictionary

Finger in the fuse

by Robert Polito,

Becoming Pauline Kael

All over the map

by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro,

A revolution in cartography

Reason for Living

by Christopher Beha,

The good life without God

Unknowable girl

by Darryl Pinckney,

Salvation for the mother of African-American literature

Glory Days

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

A pundit's rosy view of the Pax Americana

A great consolation

by Christopher Tayler,

The postwar unmaking of Samuel Beckett

The long goodbye

by Will Frears,

James Ellroy tries to let go

The purloined Borges

by Edgardo Krebs,

Translation and traduction

Heart of snarkness

by Harper’s Staff,

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