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Breaking the Code: Against Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker implies that art that isn’t rooted in evolution is perforce bad and irresponsible art. Dan Green has other ideas. [more]

Reconsidering Thomas Bernhard’s Correction

Bernhard’s predominant concern is the subordination of reality to language. David Sepanik discusses how in Correction the process of language overwhelms lived existence. [more]

ISSUE 3

Spring 2006

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The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert

Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer

Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman

Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

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