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No Funny Business: How Orhan Pamuk’s Postmodern Fictions Fall Short

All successful postmodern literature contains a comic element, argues Dan Green. Orhan Pamuk just isn’t funny. [more]

Thrice Told Tales: How Stories Become Reality in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow

Oral storytelling is an essential part of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s beliefs about art and politics. Scott Esposito explains how storytelling works on three levels in Thiong’o’s newest novel, Wizard of the Crow. [more]

Déjà Vu: On Rereading Catch-22

The language, logic, and structure of Catch-22 are like a Mobius strip, argues Elizabeth Wadell. So is rereading. [more]

Excerpt: Cautionary Tales

New work from Edie Meidav and Ken Stout, from their forthcoming book, Cautionary Tales. [more]

ISSUE 7

Spring 2007

Two Men on the Subway
Dave Beckerman
Courtesy of the Artist

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Amulet by Roberto Bolaño

The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian

The Shape of Things to Come by Greil Marcus

Poor People by William T. Vollmann

The Mystery of the Sardine by Stefan Themerson

Of Song and Water by Joseph Coulson

Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose

Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore

All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Stephen Levy

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