Bach at the Burger King
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Elio’s Education
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At a Certain Age and Searching for Meaning: Anne Tyler’s “Clock Dance”
Memories of the Skin: Shizu Saldamando’s Portraits
The Keeper of the Keys Tells His Tale
Assembling a New Left
From Watching to Participating: Kate Bredeson and Lars Jan Discuss 1968 and Jan’s Stage Production of Joan Didion’s “The White Album”
Stories as Prayer: A Conversation Between Joshua Cohen and Harold Bloom
The People in the Trees
Originalism on Trial
The Political Print: On David Francis Taylor’s “The Politics of Parody”
Prison Is Another Word for Lynching
A Science of Exceptions: On Michel Serres’s “The Birth of Physics”
Beyond the Lyme Wars
The Hazards of Good Fortune, Part XV
Revolt and Revulsion in Margarita García Robayo’s “Fish Soup”
To Endure the Void: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” Trilogy
A Tale of Two States
Past Progressive: Dan Kaufman’s “The Fall of Wisconsin”
The Republican Party Is Dead: A Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer
Black Magic Realism: John Rechy’s First Novel
Beyond Physical Coexistence: Aminatta Forna’s “Happiness”
