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He was a gaunt young man who seemed suspicious of conversation that strayed outside certain unspecified guidelines.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
The prevailing acceptance of nontraditional sexual identities.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
At age fifty he viewed himself, after publication of two books of nonfiction, one on the war, the other a personal account of the Irish troubles, plus the short story collection and innumerable articles for national magazines, as a conundrum, a man unable to define his commitment or understand the secret of his own navel, a literary gnome. He serio
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autochthonous,
John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
Primevally
Anna Burns • Milkman
The (seemingly regular) deaths of unarmed
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Cheap, blatant, and readily accessible, American pop culture was made for the world’s first leisured masses. It’s almost designed to offend snobs, which is why cultural anti-Americanism tends to take root in the traditional upper ranks of societies. No working-class Englishman ever despised Americans as much as Graham Greene and John le Carré, both
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