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Jeffrey Tayler on Autumn & Winter Sonatas by Ramon Del Valle-Inclan

“An Unknown Man: The Memoirs of Marquis of Bradomin”

February 19th, 2012
Susan Salter Reynolds on James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys by James Franco

“Unfamous”

May 6th, 2012
Lee Konstantinou on The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

“Unfinished Form”

July 6th, 2011
Jesse Jarnow on Always In Trouble by Jason Weiss

“Unmatched Independent: On Record Label ESP-Disk'”

August 19th, 2012
David Wolf on Zona and Noriko Smiling by Geoff Dyer and Adam Mars-Jones

“Unprecedented Attentiveness”

June 3rd, 2012
Menachem Kaiser on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

“Unshared Histories: Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands"”

October 16th, 2012
Maggie Nelson on Bough Down by Karen Green

“Untied, Undone: "Bough Down" by Karen Green”

May 2nd, 2013
F.X. Feeney on Pogo and Go Fish by Walt Kelly and Mr. Fish

“Us Is Doomed: On Walt Kelly and Mr. Fish”

September 17th, 2012

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