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Essays
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1985
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Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality
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1987
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Matters of Sense and Opacity
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1988
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Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young
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1990
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The Horror of Pretentiousness: 'The Great and Secret Show' by Clive Barker
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1990
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Michael Martone's Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List
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1990
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The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress
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1990
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Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley
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1990
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E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
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1991
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Exploring Inner Space: War Fever by J.G. Ballard
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1991
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The Million-Dollar Tattoo: Laura's Skin by F.J. Fiederspiel
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1991
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Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to Happiness': The Doorman
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1991
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Presley as Paradigm: Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession
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1992
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Kathy Acker's Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels
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1992
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Iris' Story: An Inversion of Philosophic Skepticism: The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt
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1992
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Tracy Austin's 'Beyond Center Court: My Story'
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1992
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Greatly Exaggerated
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1993
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Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
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1994
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Mr. Cogito
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1995
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David Lynch Keeps His Head
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1995
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Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness
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1995
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
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1996
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God Bless You, Mr. Franzen
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1996
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Democracy and Commerce at the US Open
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1996
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Impediments to Passion
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1996
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Quo Vadis - Introduction
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1996
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Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
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1996
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Back in New Fire
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1997
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Twilight of the Great Literary Beasts: John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End of the Magnificent Narcissist?
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1998
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Big Red Son
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1998
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The Nature of the Fun
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1998
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F/X Porn
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1998
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Laughing with Kafka
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1998
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The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2
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1999
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Overlooked: Five Direly Underappreciated U.S. Novels >1960
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1999
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100-Word Statement
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1999
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Authority and American Usage (or, 'Politics and the English Language' is Redundant)
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2000
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Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama
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2000
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The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub
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2001
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The Best of the Prose Poem
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2001
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The View from Mrs. Thompson's
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2004
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Twenty-Four Word Notes
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2004
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Borges on the Couch
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2004
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Consider the Lobster
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2005
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Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think
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2005
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Up, Simba
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2005
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Host
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2005
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Kenyon Commencement Address
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2006
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Federer as Religious Experience
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2007
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Deciderization 2007 - a Special Report
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2007
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Just Asking
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2008
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It All Gets Quite Tricky
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