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Written by John Fraim
A strobe-light procession of events and a constantly shifting narrative perspective conspire to constantly change the "ground beneath" the reader's feet in the opening chapter of Salman Rushie's new book The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
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Written by John Fraim
Richard Sennett's short new book The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (Norton, 1998) explores the disorienting effects of the modern workplace.
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Written by Dolores E. Brien
Good Will, a novella by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley, is about that longing in all of us for a sense of wholeness or completion.
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Written by John Fraim
One of the greatest intellectual voyages of the twentieth century began with the study of an obscure but vigorous Elizabethan pamphleteer named Thomas Nashe.
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Written by Gail A. Grynbaum
The four Harry Potter books that have recently taken the American publishing industry by storm are part of a projected seven-volume British fairy tale series about magic, individuation, and the mundus imaginalis.
