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    Joan Didion’s Disaffected Literary Descendants

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    Getting Lost in William Trevor’s Private World

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    In Memoriam

    Basking in Shirley Hazzard’s Pure, Cold Light

    By Mary Duffy  December 15, 2016
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    In Praise of Zadie Smith’s London

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    How Nostalgia Corrupts Politics and Pop Culture

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    How We Write About Work, Then and Now

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    Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges

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    Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of Lolita?

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    César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible

    By Mark Haber  December 6, 2016
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    Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America’s Soul

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