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The One That Got Away: Why James Wood is Wrong About Underworld (And Why Anyone Should Care)

Garth Risk Hallberg sorts out literary feuds, dissects James Wood’s essay against Don DeLillo’s 832-page opus Underworld, and argues that this book actually evolves the novel forward. [more]

Essay by Garth Risk Hallberg

Cogito, Ergo Doom: Exit Ghost and the Rest of Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Books

Barrett Hathcock reviews the new, final Zuckerman novel and considers Philip Roth from the standpoint of all nine. [more]

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What are Prisons For?

Convicts write, and often very well. Scott Esposito discusses the state of America’s prisons and two new memoirs from Arizona’s prison writing program. [more]

Essay by Scott Esposito

A Pocket Full of Change: Trannies, Transformation, and the Gender Gap

Are two genders enough? Brien Michael wonders what two new books about men turning to women and women turning to men tell us about gender today. [more]

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