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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
Susan Salter Reynolds on The Fault in our Stars by John Green

“Only the Good”

May 6th, 2012
Michael Kammen on A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg by Janice Van Horne

“Open Marriage Chez Clem: A Life with Clement Greenberg”

December 30th, 2012
Gary Lachman on The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist

“Oppositional Thinking”

February 9th, 2012
D. Harlan Wilson on Osama by Lavie Tidhar

“Osama bin Laden: Pulp Vigilante”

December 4th, 2012
Alix Ohlin on Zone One by Colson Whitehead

“Our Zombies, Ourselves”

November 14th, 2011
John McIntyre on David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s by David Goodis

“Out of the Gutter”

July 1st, 2012
Brendan Boyle on Four Honest Outlaws by Michael Fried

“Outside the Law: On Michael Fried”

January 20th, 2012
Erik Morse on Lesabéndio by Paul Scheerbart

“Outsider Theorist Paul Scheerbart”

January 2nd, 2013
Cécile Alduy on The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Élisabeth Badinter

“The Organic-Zucchini-Baby-Food-Mixing Streamline Mommy”

August 5th, 2012
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