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    • RIGHT MAKES MIGHT

      KEVIN MATTSON on THE CONSERVATIVE TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN POLITICS

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      LAWRENCE HILL on CIVIL WAR SLAVE NARRATIVES

    • FICTION AND POLITICAL FACT

      MORRIS DICKSTEIN on POLITICAL NOVELS

    • REFLECTIONS BY MADISON SMARTT BELL, DANIEL KEHLMANN, RICHARD FLANAGAN, DANA SPIOTTA, LYDIA MILLET, DUBRAVKA UGRESIC, NORMAN RUSH, VALERIE MARTIN, CLAIRE MESSUD, MARGOT LIVESEY, ZAKES MDA, AND SIDDHARTHA DEB

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    • ROSS BENJAMIN on How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic

    • ALEX ABRAMOVICH on Slumberland by Paul Beatty

    • MICHAEL WOOD on The Delighted States by Adam Thirlwell

    • JAMES GIBBONS on Trauma by Patrick McGrath

    • LENORA TODARO on The Size of the World by Joan Silber

    • JENNIFER GILMORE on Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar

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    • CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA on Personal Days by Ed Park

    • KATHERINE HILL on Happy Trails to You by Julie Hecht

    • CARLA BLUMENKRANZ on Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

    • JOHANNAH RODGERS on Missy by Chris Hannan

    • STEFANIE SOBELLE on A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds by Mac Wellman

    • ANDREA WALKER on Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas

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    • WENDY LESSER on A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy and The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso

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    • SCOTT MCLEMEE on French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by François Cusset

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    • AMANDA SCHAFFER on Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald

    • ROLAND KELTS on Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene

    • BRYAN WALSH on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester

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    • RAYYAN AL-SHAWAF on Origins by Amin Maalouf

    • MATTHEW JESSE JACKSON on Art Power by Boris Groys

    • DONNA SEAMAN on The Bishop’s Daughter by Honor Moore

    • MARJORIE WELISH on Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson

    • ALBERT MOBILIO on It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It . . . : Photographs by Luigi Ghirri

    • NICK POPPY on A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry by Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge

    • ANDREW HULTKRANS on I Have Fun Everywhere I Go by Mike Edison

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