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Paris Review prints new Joseph Heller story

Critics have wrongly cast Joseph Heller as a one-hit wonder. Catch-22 is his greatest novel, no question. But God Knows, told from the perspective of the Biblical King David, is also brilliant. And now, thanks to the Paris Review, there’s “Hagar & Ishmael,” an excerpt from an unfinished novel discovered earlier this year. It’s a wise and scathing piece of . . .

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Galleycat reports on the fight that has erupted over the National Book Critics Circle awards nomination process.

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“What should we speak at dinner?”: Four languages, one holiday meal.

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Did Dickens’ Scrooge suffer from an undiagnosed medical disorder?

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For Edward Gorey, Christmas was a stumbling, blithering event.

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