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A compilation of some of the best of the Los Angeles Review of Books' first six months. Authors include Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Tolkin, Mark McGurl, and Jane Smiley.
Matthew Specktor -- Mr. Sublimation
A review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.
Sven Birkerts -- The Room and the Elephant
On the culture of intellectual debate online.
Michael Tolkin -- One Inch Above the Ground
A review of Louis Auchincloss' A Voice from Old New York.
Barbara Ehrenreich -- Man Is Not Cat Food
On the morality -- and lack thereof -- of humans and animals.
Mark McGurl -- The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative Writing
A response to Elif Batuman's review of The Program Era in the London Review of Books.
Jane Smiley -- The Other Nancy Mitford
On a great neglected modern novelist.
Chris Kraus -- Posthumous
On a new biography of Simone Weil.
Ben Lerner -- Where The Action Was
On Abstract Expressionist New York, as seen from Kansas and California.
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