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Ruth Franklin

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October 19, 2011
Why Writers Should Embrace Amazon’s Takeover of the Publishing Industry
October 5, 2011
Art Spiegelman’s Genre-Defying Holocaust Work, Revisited
September 21, 2011
Élisabeth Gille’s Devastating Account of her Mother, Irène Némirovsky
September 8, 2011
How the Weather Toys With Our Emotions
August 24, 2011
The Stubborn, Inward Gaze of the Post-9/11 Novel
August 11, 2011
In Praise of Anonymous Internet Advice Columns
July 27, 2011
Jaycee Dugard’s Memoir, An Acclaimed Novel, and the Art of Writing About Captivity
July 13, 2011
The Freedom to Bumble
July 13, 2011
Is Female Masturbation Really the Last Sexual Taboo?
June 28, 2011
Franklin: When Will Gay Marriage’s Time Come in Literature?
June 15, 2011
Hawk Cam: What Are We Looking for When We Watch Birds?
June 1, 2011
Can (This) Marriage Be Saved?
May 19, 2011
“[I]f I have to read another book about the Holocaust, I’ll kill a Jew myself.”
May 18, 2011
You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry, You’ll Hurl
May 4, 2011
Writing Osama bin Laden
April 6, 2011
Not Always Bingo
March 23, 2011
Into the Wilde
March 9, 2011
Did Anne Frank Really Have An ‘Infinite Human Spirit’?
February 23, 2011
In the Margins
February 7, 2011
A Literary Glass Ceiling?

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