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In “Green Frog,” Gina Chung Makes a Stunningly-Good Case for Writing Wholly Recognizable and Unrecognizable Characters

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Andrew Leland on "The Country of the Blind" and the Spectrum of Blindness

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The Line Between the Original and the Imposter in “Case Study” – Chicago Review of Books

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The Line Between the Original and the Imposter in “Case Study” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “Who is to say which is the original and which is the imposter?” queries Graeme Macrae Burnet in his 2022 Booker-Prize-nominated novel, Case Study. The question is applicable to a character in the novel, to documents reproduced within the novel and, most intriguing, to the author himself. Burnet is the ultimate unreliable narrator, and … Read more