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Lauren Elkin on Beyond the Tower by John Marriott

“A Redemptive History of East London”

June 16th, 2012
Morgan Macgregor on The Guardians by Sarah Manguso

“A Revelatory Requiem for a Mentally Ill Friend”

June 14th, 2012
Javier Martinez on Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds

“Romantic Materialism”

June 7th, 2012
Houman Barekat on Planned Obsolescence by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

“The Read-Write Generation”

June 2nd, 2012
D.J. Waldie on This Angelic Land by Aris Janigian

“Reburning L.A. – The Literature of 1992”

April 29th, 2012
Jennifer Egan on Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

“Rereading Catch-22”

December 24th, 2011
Rosten Woo on Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux

“The Right Fit: Nicholas de Monchaux's "Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo"”

December 14th, 2011
Arne De Boever on All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly

“The Return of the Gods”

December 8th, 2011
Michael Washburn on Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm

“Returning to the Scene”

August 18th, 2011
Rigoberto González on Toxicology: A Novel by Jessica Hagedorn

“Romeo Byron is Dead”

July 13th, 2011
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