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The Flow of Life The Flow of Life
Is Saul Bellow the central American novelist since Willa Cather and William Faulkner?
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Mikics
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Shelf Life Shelf Life
How the literary critic Paul de Man turned evasiveness into authority.
Apr 8, 2014 / Books & the Arts / David Mikics