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All Literature Is Self-Help, and More

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All Literature Is Self-Help, and More

Feb 17, 2022
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All Literature Is Self-Help, and More

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Dostoevsky and Flaubert had opposite styles and sensibilities. But they launched a joint assault on the 19th-century novel ... more »

It’s déclassé to browse the self-help section, but – as Sheila Heti points out – almost all literature is, secretly, self-help ... more »

It used to be that the CIA sounded genteel, patrician, transatlantic. Now there is a …

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