“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
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Reviews
Jesse Lerner on 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides and Enrique Metinides: Series by Enrique Metinides and Enrique Metinides
“Detective Photography with Art”
February 3rd, 2013
Sherryl Vint on Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias
“Don’t Let the Future Be Written For You”
December 27th, 2012
Hillary Kelly on Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb
“Dickens’s Actual Children: On Robert Gottlieb's "Great Expectations"”
December 23rd, 2012
Mark McGurl on Gothicka by Victoria Nelson
“Dark Times: On the 21st Century Gothic”
September 22nd, 2012
Chris Lehmann on Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
“Dispatches From 'Tumorland': On Christopher Hitchens' 'Mortality'”
September 2nd, 2012
Jack Shakely on Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
“A Diary Left Open: On Joy Harjo”
August 16th, 2012
Amy Finnerty on Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach
July 25th, 2012
James Guida on Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto and The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari
July 5th, 2012
K. Thomas Kahn on Satantango by László Krasznahorkai
July 3rd, 2012
Lyra Kilston on Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham
May 8th, 2012
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