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Goodbye, Ironman Tate. Goodbye, Vicious Abundance.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Missed Calls
Rafia Zakaria
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Benjamin Kunkel is an American novelist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His novel, Indecision, was published in 2005.

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The End of Escapism and the Beginning of Play

Benjamin Kunkel
Aug 1 2003
I. A  friend of mine, born, like me, in the Me Decade, once said, “I was raised a Freudian from birth.” Never mind the suburban gothic features of his particular case, or ...

A Cold in the Soul: Reading the Book of Disquiet in Apartment 62

Benjamin Kunkel
May 1 2003
I don’t know why I picked up Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet. But it would have required some monster of perfect well-being not to be attracted by the title alone, not ...

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