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  • The Importance of Art in Literature, in Review

    The Importance of Art in Literature, in Review

    Months before I opened Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001), I admired Lynn Buckley’s cover design. On…

  • The Purity of Imperfection

    The Purity of Imperfection

    On a humid September evening, in the astonishingly not-well-air-conditioned children’s section of a cozy San Francisco…

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