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September 9, 2014
William Deresiewicz
'A Great Symphony of American Junk'
What David Foster Wallace misunderstood about John Updike
August 17, 2014
William Deresiewicz
Your Criticism of My Ivy League Takedown Further Proves My Point
July 22, 2014
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William Deresiewicz
Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies.
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March 26, 2014
William Deresiewicz
The Miseducation of the Tiger Mom
An odd new book by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld gives ambition a bad name
January 27, 2014
Michael Suk-Young Chwe, William Deresiewicz
Can You Apply Game Theory to Jane Austen?
January 19, 2014
William Deresiewicz
No, Jane Austen Was Not a Game Theorist
Using science to explain art is a good way to butcher both
December 7, 2012
William Deresiewicz
Geoff Dyer’s Renovation of Contemporary Nonfiction
February 22, 2012
William Deresiewicz
That is So! That is So!
September 14, 2011
William Deresiewicz
The Shaman
November 19, 2010
William Deresiewicz
Portnoy Agonistes
July 7, 2010
William Deresiewicz
Look At Me!
July 7, 2010
William Deresiewicz
Look At Me!
February 3, 2010
William Deresiewicz
Carded
October 15, 2009
William Deresiewicz
A Geek Grows in Brooklyn
February 18, 2009
William Deresiewicz
Last Evenings On Earth
June 11, 2008
William Deresiewicz
The Isolato
A review of John Stape's 'The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad'
February 19, 2007
William Deresiewicz
Unhappy Endings

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