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Show Me Your Canon And I’ll Tell You Who You Are
What we’re left with in a post-canonical world, is lists. Lists reflect their creator’s point of view in ways that make for great conversation starters.
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A Beautiful Temptation
What constitutes the canonical English language novel? A deceptively simple idea turns into a cognitive quagmire.
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What A Quarter Century Worth of Winners Says About the Booker Prize
Trying to get even the most ephemeral grasp of anything as complex as English language literature, might seem like a fools errand.
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We Need to Talk About Steve
My bromance with Steve goes back as far as I can remember. That’s probably why I felt such a severe case of cognitive dissonance when picking up Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ memoir Small Fry.