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Tolstoy’s Hero: On Hadji Murád

Tolstoy spoke of heroes with disdain, but he could not let go of them in his art.

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The Eras of Crumb

Breaking down Crumb’s career into more manageable pieces is necessary.

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Rereading the Locas Stories

The Locas stories have their moments, but overall, they’re an erratic, haphazardly conceived mess.

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Filling Out Life’s Circumference: Anaïs Nin’s Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s

Nin’s fiction promoted a balance between external reality and the imaginative life.

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Reverse Projections: Jean-Luc Godard’s Une Femme mariée (A Married Woman)

Godard renders the title character’s anomie as dispassionately as one might write out a math problem.

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Brassaï: A Perspective Knowing

The photographs leave one with a greater objectivity, a more complete concept of the moment depicted.

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A Dance to the Music of Youth: A Review of Godard’s Band of Outsiders

Adolescent bliss has never been captured better on film.

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