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Books

Arcadian adventures

by Mark Kingwell,

Walter Benjamin, the connoisseur of everyday life

by Kathryn Harrison,

The mysterious narrative of marriage

by Frederick Kaufman,

On the triumph of American gastrosophy

by William H. Gass,

On the enduring pleasures of paper, type, page, and ink

by Thomas Frank,

by Francine Prose,

How American high school students learn to loathe literature

by Vince Passaro,

The quiet renaissance of American short fiction

by Jonathan Dee,

On the art of literary graverobbing

Norman Podhoretz as crumb

by Bill Burns,

by Albert Mobilio,

A genre of how-to manuals indulges our darkest fantasies