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Merve Emre is Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Her latest book is The Personality Brokers.
Bad readers were not born; they were created. To know them is to understand literature and politics in postwar America.
The personal essay is not dead, but has it traded politics for style?
In Amanda Knox's new book, teen chick lit gives way to an insightful memoir from behind the prison walls.
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