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E.C. McCarthy on Mungojerrie by Paula Merriman

“The Feline Mystique”

April 1st, 2012
Domenick Ammirati on The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq

“From Cocks to Corpses: Michel Houellebecq's "The Map and the Territory"”

March 12th, 2012
Jeff Chang on Inauguration by Catherine Opie

“The Future Belongs to Crowds”

January 20th, 2012
Peter Campion on Twin Cities by Carol Muske-Dukes

“Find Yourself A City To Live In”

January 19th, 2012
Maggie Nelson on The Weather in Proust by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“Finishing Touches”

January 13th, 2012
Tod Goldberg on The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar

“Falling Down”

October 18th, 2011
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“Family Horserace”

August 25th, 2011
Keri Walsh on Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser

“Famously Married”

July 3rd, 2011
Erica Edwards on What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren

“The Formidable Work of the Present”

June 13th, 2011
Benjamin Balint on To the End of the Land by David Grossman

“Flesh and Blood”

April 27th, 2011
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