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How André Breton Disdained Possessions Before It Was Cool

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On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

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How Gloria Naylor Captures Love in <em>The Women of <br>Brewster Place</em>

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Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel's 1974 Essay,

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Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

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What Can an Intellectual Do? On Wallace Shawn’s <em>The Designated Mourner</em>

What Can an Intellectual Do? On Wallace Shawn’s The Designated Mourner

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On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

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On the Reality Behind Shirley Jackson’s Haunted Stories

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