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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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The Human Comedy of ‘The Betrothed’
Reviewing Alessandro Manzoni’s Beloved Italian Classic
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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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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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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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Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!
Reviewing Pär Lagerkvist’s Classic, Nobel-Winning Novel ‘Barabbas’
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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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Whose Novels Are We Living In?
Is this Philip K. Dick’s World? What about Vonnegut, Percy, O’Connor, or Didion?
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Building: How You Can, While You Can
Parallel Visions of Our Work in Willa Cather’s Classic ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’
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A Scrambled Story and a Puzzle to Solve
Inside Vladimir Nabokov’s Head-Scratcher Classic ‘Pale Fire’
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Jeff Goins
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Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?
Reviewing Anne de Marcken’s ‘It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over’
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The Everyday Madness of Shirley Jackson
Exploring Her Classic Novels: ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle,’ ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ Others
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