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Cullen Gallagher on Bloodland by Alan Glynn

“Warlords and Tycoons”

January 23rd, 2012
Charles Yu on 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

“World-Shifting: Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"”

December 12th, 2011
Lisa Locascio on Bear Down, Bear North by Melinda Moustakis

“Waking from the Dream of Alaska”

December 3rd, 2011
Colin Dickey on Digging Up the Dead by Michael Kammen

“We Will Re-Bury You”

November 27th, 2011
Pete L’Official on Glenn Ligon: AMERICA and Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews by Glenn Ligon and Glenn Ligon

“Words, Words, Words”

November 1st, 2011
Amy Wilentz on Blue Nights by Joan Didion

“Where The Morning Went”

October 26th, 2011
Ed Skoog on Metropole by Geoffrey G. O'Brien

“Weaving Spiders Come Not Here”

October 13th, 2011
Cullen Gallagher on Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski

“The Wile E. Coyote of Crime Fiction”

September 17th, 2011
Jacob Silverman on Zone by Mathias Enard

“War Zone”

June 29th, 2011
F.X. Feeney on Death Wish and They Live by Christopher Sorrentino and Jonathan Lethem

“A Wilderness of Contradictions”

June 22nd, 2011
Aldon Lynn Nielsen on What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren

“Wasness”

June 13th, 2011
Daniel Tiffany on The Cloud Corporation by Timothy Donnelly

“We Revolt Ourselves”

April 26th, 2011
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