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There Have Always Been Genre Wars

There Have Always Been Genre Wars

On the Battles Around Yiddish Pulp Fiction

By Ezra Glinter | January 5, 2017

The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

Dickens Believed Women Should Be of Selfless Service to their Family & Country

By Rachel Vorona Cote | January 5, 2017

Resistance Lit: Scott Korb on Harriet Jacobs

Resistance Lit: Scott Korb on Harriet Jacobs

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The Murakami Effect

The Murakami Effect

On the Homogenizing Dangers of Easily Translated Literature

By Stephen Snyder | January 4, 2017

Not My Sherlock

Not My Sherlock

A Sherlock Holmes Expert on “The Six Thatchers” and the Perils of Reinvention

By Brittany Cavallaro | January 4, 2017

Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s <em>The Book Thief</em>

Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief

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Joan Didion's Disaffected Literary Descendants

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On the New Generation of Wayward Daughter Protagonists

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Getting Lost in William Trevor's Private World

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Basking in Shirley Hazzard's Pure, Cold Light

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