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Magic Circles
On Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return
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Ethan Gibson
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The Barest Trace of a Future
On Samuel Beckett's Quadrat 1+2
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david c. porter
The Jameson Arras
In good dialectical fashion, the eulogies preceded the death, with no one knowing that was what they were writing.
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Ian Maxton
Did Mishima Die Happy?
“Did he really think it through?” – Henry Miller, Reflections on the Death of Mishima
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Duncan Stuart
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On Cioran
"... a man cracking jokes while waiting in line to be thrown alive into a mass grave."
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Nathan Knapp
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Saint Bovary
On Flaubert's Mystic Realism
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Duncan Stuart
Kafka's Hypographs
"What is next? The tax returns of Franz Kafka?"
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Duncan Stuart
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My Generation: Honor Levy’s My First Book & the Old Shock of the New
Early in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country, the socially omniscient Charles Bowen remarks of the protagonist Undine Spragg: “… she’s a…
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Tomoé Hill
Notes on Molly
When Love Resists Interpretation
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Britt Menjivar
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So, I Finally Read Ulysses
"Ulysses, by being everything, performs both the egalitarianism of the artwork and its inexhaustibility."
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Duncan Stuart
Interview: Tomoé Hill
Author of Songs For Olympia
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Adam Moody
The Politics & Poetics of Gene Wolfe
On Non-Didactic Fiction
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Tobias Carroll
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