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Jonathan Franzen
August 24, 2011
Ruth Franklin
The Stubborn, Inward Gaze of the Post-9/11 Novel
December 14, 2010
Hillary Kelly
Bad Expectations
Oprah’s misguided view of Charles Dickens—and literature as a whole.
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Impact Man
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Adam Kirsch
Jonathan Franzen, the Iraq War, and Leo Strauss
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Leon Wieseltier
The Higher Spleen
September 21, 2010
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Impact Man
September 7, 2010
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The READ: Franzen Fallout
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Such Nativity
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