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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>

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Resistance Lit: Jonathan Lethem and T.J. Stiles

Resistance Lit: Jonathan Lethem and T.J. Stiles

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Gary Taubes, Aravind Adiga, Roxane Gay, and More

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On the New Generation of Wayward Daughter Protagonists

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