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On the Random Discovery of Life-Changing Books

On the Random Discovery of Life-Changing Books

Bruce Bauman’s Life Under the Influence

By Bruce Bauman | October 28, 2015

On Buying Books from the Dead

On Buying Books from the Dead

Alexander Chee Finds Himself in an Iris Murdoch Novel

By Alexander Chee | October 27, 2015

An Open Letter to An Unnamed White Writer

An Open Letter to An Unnamed White Writer

P.E. Garcia Responds to the Pseudonymous Confession of Jesus Angel Garcia

By P.E. Garcia | October 27, 2015

When a White Writer Uses a Latino Pen Name

When a White Writer Uses a Latino Pen Name

The Confession of Jesus Angel Garcia, Author of BadBadBad

By AKA Jesus Angel Garcia | October 26, 2015

True Confessions of an Auto-Fictionist

True Confessions of an Auto-Fictionist

Lily Tuck on the Novelist's Documentary Impulse

By Lily Tuck | October 23, 2015

The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

Sentimental, Almost Cloying, Occasionally Saccharine, Often Wonderful

By Jonathan Russell Clark | October 22, 2015

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By Jason Diamond | October 22, 2015

Jane Smiley: "At the End of This Trilogy, I Wept."

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Happy Pub Birthday, Moby-Dick, You are the Best

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Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

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How the correspondence of Marx and Engels turned into a novel

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Why the Printed Book Will Last Another 500 Years

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How to Love an Imperfect Genius, and Other Considerations

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Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

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<em>Don Quixote</em>: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

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