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Julia Adeney Thomas on A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard by Levy Hideo

“Oh Say Can You See”

May 30th, 2012
Susan Salter Reynolds on The Fault in our Stars by John Green

“Only the Good”

May 6th, 2012
Brian Reed on Taller When Prone and Activist Poetics by Les Murray and John Kinsella

“One Ireland, Plus At Least Six Great Britains”

February 22nd, 2012
Gary Lachman on The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist

“Oppositional Thinking”

February 9th, 2012
Cullen Gallagher on Hurt Machine (Moe Prager) by Reed Farrel Coleman

“Occasional PI”

January 23rd, 2012
Brendan Boyle on Four Honest Outlaws by Michael Fried

“Outside the Law: On Michael Fried”

January 20th, 2012
Cameron Shaw on L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints and Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 by Connie Rogers Tilton and Kellie Jones

“Object Relations”

December 22nd, 2011
Alix Ohlin on Zone One by Colson Whitehead

“Our Zombies, Ourselves”

November 14th, 2011
Jessica Freeman-Slade on My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by

“Once Children”

June 8th, 2011
Michael Tolkin on A Voice from Old New York by Louis Auchincloss

“One Inch Above the Ground”

May 9th, 2011
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