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Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize Novel

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The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

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On the Diaries of Helen Garner and the Quagmire of the Fictionalized Self

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By Madeleine Watts | July 16, 2020

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By Madeleine Watts | September 30, 2019

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