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Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Charles Eliot Norton,
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
To say no to Ruby Hornaday would be to say no to the world.
Ben Marcus • New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
schadenfreude.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
from hat to shoe
Patrick deWitt • The Sisters Brothers
Frank Norris’s ungainly naturalist novel McTeague in the former and to T. S. Eliot’s cryptic “The Waste Land” in the latter.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
lacuna