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tion. As such it is a mirror, a glimpse, of our own contradictions, the
arbitrariness of our own systems of thought, our very existence . It
belittles our stereotypes, our view of ourselves at the center of the
world, our naturalness, our intoxicated individuality. It transforms
our present into the unrecognizable, makes the hidden of our pre–
sent visible. It is the future.
It
exists now.
Coming in
Partisan Review
• Amos Oz on Nazi Power and Jewish Resistance
• Fiction by Sergei Dovlatov
• Rene Wellek on Hayden White
• An Interview with Czeslaw Milosz
• Vassily Aksyonov on
Glasnost
• Pearl K. Bell on Kate Chopin and Sarah Orne Jewett
• Raymond Aron:
A Memoir
• Orwell and Waugh
by George Watson
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
• Eugene Goodheart:
Desire and Its Discontents
• Steven Marcus on Ernest Hemingway
• Fiction by Isaac Bashevis Singer
