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American literature

  • Why we must read 19th-century US books like ‘Little Women’, ‘Leaves of Grass’ to get modern America

    Why we must read 19th-century US books like ‘Little Women’, ‘Leaves of Grass’ to get modern America

    Jillian Spivey Caddell, The Conversation
    · May 19, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • Philip Roth: The American writer who shouldn’t need the Nobel to be read the world over

    Philip Roth: The American writer who shouldn’t need the Nobel to be read the world over

    Saikat Majumdar
    · Oct 15, 2016 · 07:30 pm
  • Ann Patchett’s ‘Commonwealth’ is a dizzily unplotted novel that teaches you to live magnanimously

    Ann Patchett’s ‘Commonwealth’ is a dizzily unplotted novel that teaches you to live magnanimously

    Devapriya Roy
    · Oct 02, 2016 · 06:30 am
  • Why we must keep trying to deconstruct the troubled genius of David Foster Wallace

    Why we must keep trying to deconstruct the troubled genius of David Foster Wallace

    Binit Priyaranjan
    · Sep 12, 2016 · 08:30 am