Reviews | December 01, 2008
Gaping at a Shoe: Intellectualism in American Literature
Nathan Oates
Featuring reviews of:
The Unpossessed by Tess Slessinger
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels
Dictation: A Quartet by Cynthia Ozick.
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