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Provincialism and the Intellectual as a Social Type

From "The Comedian as the Letter C," by Wallace Stevens

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At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry, by Abe Aamidor and Ted Evanoff

This is the weirdest thing I've read in awhile

Populism, the Tea Party, and Historiography

From Old Masters, by Thomas Bernhard

From The New Radicalism in America, by Christopher Lasch

Franzen's Favorite Fiction

Going Everywhere

From Raymond Williams, "Culture Is Ordinary"

Highbrow/Lowbrow, by Lawrence Levine

Theodore Dreiser's Library of American Realism

In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, by Perry Anderson

Žižek in the New Left Review; Elections as Experiences