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    Is The Great Gatsby Actually Profound?

    By Lit Century   October 12, 2021
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    On the Vivid Landscapes of Alice Munro

    By Lit Century   October 5, 2021
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    On Jamaica Kincaid’s Prescient, Unapologetic Lucy

    By Lit Century   September 28, 2021
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    How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me Subverts 80s Teenage Tropes

    By Lit Century   September 21, 2021
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    On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

    By Lit Century   July 7, 2021
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    The Ongoingness of War in Ismail Kadare’s The General of the Dead Army

    By Lit Century   June 29, 2021
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    How Language Limits Our Ability to Describe Smells

    By Lit Century   June 22, 2021
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    Grappling with Yukio Mishima’s Murderous Children

    By Lit Century   June 15, 2021
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    Who Might Have Discovered DNA’s Structure, Given the Opportunity to Try?

    By Lit Century   June 8, 2021
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    Can We Discuss Jenny Holzer’s “Truisms” as Literature?

    By Lit Century   June 1, 2021
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    How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

    By Lit Century   May 25, 2021
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    On Midcentury American Literature’s Preoccupation with Scandalous Sex

    By Lit Century   May 18, 2021
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    Should Norman Mailer Have Any Legacy Beyond Being the Guy Who Stabbed His Wife?

    By Lit Century   May 11, 2021
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    On the Time-Traveling Allusions of T.S. Eliot

    By Lit Century   May 4, 2021
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    How André Breton Disdained Possessions Before It Was Cool

    By Lit Century   April 27, 2021
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    On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in The Chaneysville Incident

    By Lit Century   April 20, 2021
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    On Domestic Labor and Freedom in Excellent Women

    By Lit Century   April 13, 2021
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    On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

    By Lit Century   April 6, 2021
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    How Gloria Naylor Captures Love in The Women of
    Brewster Place

    By Lit Century   March 30, 2021
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    Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel’s 1974 Essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

    By Lit Century   March 23, 2021
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    How The End of Vandalism Treats Small-Town America

    By Lit Century   March 16, 2021
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    Was Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled the Greatest Literary Practical Joke of All Time?

    By Lit Century   March 9, 2021
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    On the Ultra-Relatable, Modern Burnout of Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6”

    By Lit Century   March 2, 2021
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    Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: Further Evidence That All Stories Are Hauntings

    By Lit Century   February 23, 2021
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    On the Teenage Angst of 20th-Century Literature

    By Lit Century   February 16, 2021
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