Reviews | December 01, 2008
Gaping at a Shoe: Intellectualism in American Literature
Nathan Oates
Featuring reviews of:
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The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels
Dictation: A Quartet by Cynthia Ozick.
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