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Morris Dickstein on Tess Slesinger
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Timeline of literary debuts
Excerpt from Thomas Bernhard's Frost
Arts & Letters
on and 's My Life in France
on 's On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
on 's Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-war Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika
on 's The Flowers of Tarbes, or, Terror in Literature
on 's Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
The poetry of Guantánamo Bay's detainees
Fiction
on 's The Afterlife
on 's A Woman in Jerusalem
on 's Everyman
Columns
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A Prairie Home Companion, the film; San Francisco's Beat Museum; Q&A on the World Cup; Rhonda Lieberman on Proustiana
Noted
on 's The Bullet Trick
on 's The First Hurt
on 's Seven Stories
on 's The Book of Portraiture
on 's Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock
on 's Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953
on 's Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America