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What Borges Learned from Cervantes

On Language, and the Thin Line Between Fiction and Reality
April 20, 2016  By Ilan Stavans and William P. Childers 
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Correcting the Canon 10 Books at a Time

Sarah Schulman Lifts Up the Books Most Important to Her
March 24, 2016  By Sarah Schulman
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Really, Really Big Books: A Reading List

Does Size Matter? Depends on Who You Ask
October 21, 2015  By Bethanne Patrick
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Don Quixote: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

On the Magical Hyper-realism of a 400-Year-Old Classic
October 7, 2015  By Ilan Stavans
5

Virginia Woolf: A Definitive Bloomsbury Reading List

What They Read, Who to Read, and Why
July 15, 2015  By Bethanne Patrick
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Enrique Vila-Matas Takes a Walk

Strolling in Midtown Manhattan = Act of Resistance
July 8, 2015  By Enrique Vila-Matas
3

How to Draw a Novel

Tracing the shapes of the stories we tell
April 8, 2015  By Martin Solares
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