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Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Unfinished Business</em> by Vivian Gornick

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Carlin Romano on One of the Finalists for Criticism

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Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and <em>Jane Eyre</em>

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Kate Washington on Burnout, Marital Roles, and the Feminine Ideals of Victorian Literature

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