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How to Read about Books You Haven't Read

From "The Return of Cold War Liberalism," by Andrew Kopkind

From "Americans and Their Myths," by Jean-Paul Sartre

In Persuasion Nation, by George Saunders

Angels, by Denis Johnson

From "Is Literature Possible?" by Lionel Trilling

From "On Being Modern-Minded", by Bertrand Russell

Salad Days

Two by Randall Jarrell

From "The Ruins of Memory," by Josephine Herbst

The Manqués

The Nation: 1865-1990, ed. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow

Drown, by Junot Díaz

From "Minnesota: The Norse State," by Sinclair Lewis

"The Fugitive Poets of Fenway Park," by Martín Espada

Within the Context of No Context, George W.S. Trow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz

Lattice Pray