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The Killer and the Harlot: Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’
A Murderer’s Excuse, a Prostitute’s Love, and the One Road to Redemption
 • Joel J Miller
The Novel That Kept a British Prime Minister Up All Night
Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’ Paved the Way for Modern Suspense Novels—And Then We Mostly Forgot
 • Joel J Miller
Never Quite Home: 2 Incomplete Answers for a World in Flux
Dueling Dystopias: Reviewing Yoko Tawada’s ‘Scattered All Over the Earth’ Trilogy and ‘The Emissary’
 • Joel J Miller
The Beautiful Mess of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’
When a Novelist Attempts to Write Scripture
 • Joel J Miller
When All Your Stories Get Scrambled
Reviewing Mario Vargas Llosa’s Classic Comic Novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’
 • Joel J Miller
Scars of the Past: Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’
Reviewing a Genre-Bending Modern Classic
 • Joel J Miller
A Monster’s Wish: The Friendship Missing from ‘Frankenstein’
Actually, It’s About a Lot of Things, But Let’s Start There: Reviewing Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel
 • Joel J Miller
Mary Poppins, That Joyless Scold
When It Comes to P.L. Travers’s Book, It’s Not a Jolly Holiday with Mary
 • Joel J Miller
We’ve Been Reading ‘Dracula’ Wrong
The Gospel According to Mina Harker
 • Joel J Miller
Shaped—and Misshaped—by Our Parents
Reviewing ‘Hard Times’ by Charles Dickens and ‘Eugénie Grandet’ by Honoré de Balzac
 • Joel J Miller
Quiet Fragility: Feeling the World with Yoko Ogawa
Inside ‘The Memory Police’ ‘Mina’s Matchbox,’ and ‘The Housekeeper and the Professor’
 • Joel J Miller
A Dream that Will Change You
Reviewing Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s Ghostly Novella ‘Baron Bagge’
 • Jordan M. Poss
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