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A Dream that Will Change You
Reviewing Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s Ghostly Novella ‘Baron Bagge’
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Jordan M. Poss
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No Easy Money, But What If?
Everybody’s Got an Angle: Reviewing Chester Himes’s Noir Classic ‘A Rage in Harlem’
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Joel J Miller
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American Mythos: Why the West Still Beckons
The Cost of Vengeance: Reviewing Aaron Gwyn’s ‘The Cannibal Owl’ and Derrick G. Jeter’s ‘Blood Touching Blood’
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Joel J Miller
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How Many Minds Can Henry James Cram in a Single Paragraph?
‘The Ambassadors’ and the Neuroscience of Novels
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Joel J Miller
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Ambivalent War on AI
Reviewing His Prescient Debut Novel ‘Player Piano’
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Joel J Miller
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Do You Want What You Want? Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’
Reviewing a Classic Story of Divided Affections
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Joel J Miller
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The Human Comedy of ‘The Betrothed’
Reviewing Alessandro Manzoni’s Beloved Italian Classic
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Joel J Miller
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Chickens? A Bigger Deal Than You’d Guess
Birds in Books: Chick Lit, Plus Sy Montgomery’s ‘What the Chicken Knows’ and Charles Willeford’s ‘Cockfighter’
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Joel J Miller
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When the Rules No Longer Apply
Reviewing Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’
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Joel J Miller
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Do It for the Fat Lady: Spiritual Crisis and Comic Mercy in ‘Franny and Zooey’
J.D. Salinger’s Quiet Classic Still Speaks. Who’s Listening?
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Joel J Miller
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Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!
Reviewing Pär Lagerkvist’s Classic, Nobel-Winning Novel ‘Barabbas’
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Joel J Miller
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Questioning the Greatness of ‘Gatsby’
Is ‘The Great Gatsby’ Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece or, as One Critic Says, ‘Aesthetically Overrated, Psychologically Vacant, and Morally Complacent’?
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Joel J Miller
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