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Sleeping Through Life
Two chapters into Matthew Gasda’s The Sleepers, Mariko, a waitress and stage actress, gets into a spat with her boyfriend, Dan, a Marxist English professor and would-be public intellectual...
A Cloak of Fiction
Either/Orby elif batumanpenguin, 368 pages, $27 Flannery O’Connor argued that the separation of matter and spirit, nature and grace, was fatal to the art of fiction, which requires an...