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A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran
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My Part of Her
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Dina Nayeri
| February 11, 2020
The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace
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In the Land of Men
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Zan Romanoff
| February 10, 2020
Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won't End
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Unfinished Business
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John Freeman
| February 10, 2020
The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success
Jenn Shapland on
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and Building a Life
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| February 10, 2020
Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020
Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"
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Gabrielle Bellot
| February 7, 2020
How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles
Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology
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Sam Wasson
| February 7, 2020
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Red Newsom
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What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind
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Varlam Shalamov
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