All Reviews

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  Experimenting on Faith: Ryan McIlvain's "Elders"

  Inlaid with darkness and violence, Elders is the story of disaffected young men’s machinations towards adulthood through the apparatus of the Church.

  Lisa Locascio NighthawkSep 21, 2013
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  Pynchon’s Postmodern Legacy, or Why Irony Is Still Relevant

  Justin St. ClairSep 21, 2013
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  What We Talk About When We Talk About Monsters

  John LanganSep 20, 2013
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  The Thing Itself: Art and Ekphrasis in Thomas Van Essen’s Debut Novel

  Yearning, inexplicable and perennially unsatisfied, permeates The Center of the World, Thomas Van Essen’s debut novel.

  Alana ShillingSep 19, 2013
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  You Had to Like It: Rereading Red Smith

  “You had to like it” would have been an apt alternate title for the Library of America’s American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith.

  Sebastian StockmanSep 18, 2013

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  What Dreams Are Made On: Adam Fitzgerald, David Lynch, & American Surrealism

  Surrealism may seem more muted in words, but The Late Parade certainly walks within this light.

  Eric Dean WilsonSep 18, 2013
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  They Are All Completely Within Ourselves

  Kathleen Ann Goonan Sep 16, 2013
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  The Art of Digression: J.D. Salinger’s "Seymour: An Introduction"

  A book as ponderous and contradictory and mixed as Seymour: An Introduction inspires us to slow the rush of daily life.

  Sean HooksSep 15, 2013
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  Hollywood, Power, and the Law: The Case of Greg Bautzer

  Was Greg Bautzer the most powerful attorney in Hollywood? If so, did that give him any real power?

  Frank GruberSep 14, 2013
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  Cui Bono? On Harry Browne's "The Frontman"

  Is the world better off, or worse, thanks to Bono’s career as a global statesman and advocate for human rights?

  Elliott Prasse-FreemanSep 14, 2013
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  Big Cheese: Michael Paterniti's "The Telling Room"

  Michael Paterniti falls in love with a cheese, or rather with the idea of this cheese, because he goes for years without tasting the creamy insides of his beloved queso.

  Mark Haskell SmithSep 13, 2013
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  Finding Others in the Dark: Win Bassett on “The Dark Path”

  Schickler would telepathically send haikus to chosen ladies from his perch as an altar boy.

  Win BassettSep 12, 2013
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  Pynchon’s Deep Web

  Michael JarvisSep 11, 2013
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  Empty Chairs at Empty Tables: Norman Rush’s Subtle Bodies

  Norman Rush may have traded Botswana for upstate New York, but the phenomenon of male friendship is as worthy of anthropological study as any foreign tribe.

  Sep 9, 2013

• Foreign Bodies, Native Lands: Norman Rush’s Subtle Bodies

  Daniel Pearce asks the question: Can Norman Rush paint on a smaller canvas? The answer is….

  Sep 9, 2013
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  Beyond Measurable Time and Space

  Carmen Maria MachadoSep 9, 2013