
Inherent Vice
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Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh...
A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice and Agata Zarzycka
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Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a...

Pastoralia
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'Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the...

Pastorialia
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'Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the...

Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer
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Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the...

That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written
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Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of...
Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975
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Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the...

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury
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Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American...

Bleeding Edge
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It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible...