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The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha (1994)

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The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (2014)

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The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner (2021)

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The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg (2013)

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The Impossible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood (2005)

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The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012)

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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood (2012)

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The Fugitivities by Jesse McCarthy

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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Maggie Doherty

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The Economy of Character by Deidre Shauna Lynch

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The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell (2014)

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The Drama of Ideas by Martin Puchner (2010)

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