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A Return to Form in the Penny Press!

Well, having felt like I’d been suckled in a creed outworn, it certainly came as a relief – and didn’t take long – to have glimpses that would make me less forlorn in the Penny Press, and that relief...

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Insults Large and Small in the Penny Press!

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for New York magazine here at Stevereads. Last week there was that noxious, fawning travesty of a piece by Evan Hughes titled “Just Kids,” a gushing piece of...

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Sheer Virtuosity in the Penny Press!

Granted, the Penny Press might let me down from time to time – but the main reason I love it is on full display at the newsstand this week. Clever people writing prose on deadline can be (present...

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Great Paragraphs and Otherwise in the Penny Press!

When historians finally settle the dust of the last decade, it wouldn’t surprise me if the most toxic legacy of the George W. Bush interregnum isn’t an essentially unpayable 50 trillion dollar...

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The Best of 2013 in the Penny Press!

Another sub-genre that’s pleased me greatly for a great deal of my reading life has likewise been unjustly neglected here in my year-end summings-up, despite how much I invariably write about it...

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The Embattled Canon in the Penny Press!

  The New York Times Book Review pauses to take note of the fact that it’s been twenty years since Harold Bloom wrote his big, controversial book The Western Canon, a little anniversary that had...

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Roman Revivals in the Penny Press!

It’s been two blessed years since the New York Review of Books reprinted John Williams’s flatulently boring 1965 novel Stoner and the presumably bored grandees of the book-chat world surprised all...

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Idol-Bashing in the Penny Press!

This late in the year, for good or ill, the year’s publishing success stories are fairly well known – both “success” in terms of sales and “success” in terms of critical worth (and the rare, happy...

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