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Jonathan Lethem’s latest book is Brooklyn Crime Novel. He is the Roy Edward Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona. (June 2024)
Grand Poobah of the Antigrandiose
In his five very different novels Charles Portis’s signature was deflation, his attention always fixed on how the world declines to make sense.
Charles Portis: Collected Works
edited by Jay Jennings
Haunted Man’s Report: Reading Charles Portis
by Robert Cochran
June 20, 2024 issue
Snowden in the Labyrinth
Edward Snowden’s ‘Permanent Record’
Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
October 24, 2019 issue
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