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Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>

Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of Mrs. Dalloway

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What a Plunge! Teaching <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em> to High Schoolers in 2025

What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

Mia Manzulli Considers Clarissa in the Age of AI and Fractured Attention

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Drafting <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

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<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Reflection and Refraction

The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction

The Final Episode of the Dostoevsky Season

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Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More

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What If It <em>Is</em> Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

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Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

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Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

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From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

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