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Zach Dorfman on The Undivided Past by David Cannadine

“The String in the Maze: On What It Means to Be Human”

April 8th, 2013
Ted Gioia on U.S.A. by John Dos Passos

“The Great American Novel That Wasn’t”

January 20th, 2013
Ben Hamilton on Umbrella by Will Self

“A Merry Dance: Will Self Takes on Modernism”

February 12th, 2013
Frederick Deknatel on Understanding Cairo by David Sims

“2050 or Bust”

January 18th, 2012
Jeffrey Burbank on Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles by Michael Gross

“Tales From The Platinum Triangle”

February 21st, 2012
Adam Plunkett on Harm and Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys by Hillary Gravendyk and D.A. Powell

“Bodies in Pain”

February 22nd, 2012
Roxane Gay on Uses For Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"”

May 14th, 2013
Scott Selisker on Throne of the Crescent Moon and Utopia by Saladin Ahmed and Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

“Alternate Arabias: New Arab-American and Egyptian SF and Fantasy”

August 31st, 2012

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