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Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon

Teeth

Perilous Joy: George Eliot and the marriage question

My Beautiful Friend

Old Weird America: The Dark Comedies of Charles Portis

The Limits of Forgiveness

Silicon or Carbon?

“The Wound Talks to You”: The Nightmares of John Berryman

Atmospheric Changes: On Meteorology and Camus

The Other Woman

Streets Like Living Rooms: Orhan Pamuk’s Photographs of Istanbul

Anger Mangement

Unrecognizable: William Gaddis’s American Pessimism

Meaning a Life

The Stutterer's Song: Remembering Bill Withers

Against Advice

Safety Meeting

Who wants to play the status game?

The Problem with Letters of Recommendation

Is Plagiarism Wrong?

A Hard Case: Victor Serge's Notebooks

Parenting and Panic

Half a Person

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Idleness

Persuade or Be Persuaded

The Exception: Restoring Lois Weber

Useful Idiots: On Elif Batuman's 'The Idiot'

Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless

The Innocence of Things: A Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard

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