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“Good Liar, Terrible Liar”

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“Gore Vidal Redux”

November 6th, 2012
Judith Freeman on The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer

“Greeneland”

February 3rd, 2012
Mike Sonksen on Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein

“Growing Down”

May 17th, 2012
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“Growing Up”

October 7th, 2011
Sara Jaffe on White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay

“Guilty of Being White”

January 23rd, 2012
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“The Girl with the Father Tattoo”

December 16th, 2011
Kevin Driscoll on To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov

“The God That Failed: Evgeny Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here””

March 17th, 2013
James Santel on Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

“The Golden Age: On Chabon's "Telegraph Avenue"”

November 11th, 2012
Sharon Brous on New American Haggadah by Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer

“The Good, The Bad, and The Unsettling: On the “New American Haggadah””

March 24th, 2013
Ted Gioia on U.S.A. by John Dos Passos

“The Great American Novel That Wasn’t”

January 20th, 2013
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