Seen and Not Seen PHIL CHRISTMAN As a reader grows older, it gets harder not to fall victim to the idea that the novel is somehow in crisis—that this protean form is down to its...
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Phil Christman Say What You Mean A Terrible Country Keith Gessen Viking, $26, 352 pp. The first issue of the literary journal n+1 began, in 2004, with these words: "We are living in an era of...
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BOOKS Phil Christman A Gift We Don't Deserve The Graybar Hotel Stories Curtis Dawkins Scribner, $16, 240 pp. In an utterly different context, a reader might recognize Curtis Dawkins's debut...
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Phil Christman A Defiant Imperfection The Idiot ElifBatuman Penguin, $27, 432 pp. It's probably possible to read Elif Batuman's first novel—the story, by a Harvard-educated, language-obsessed,...
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