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Morality and Mirrors in Naomi Kanakia's "The Default World"

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Apr 30, 2025
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In the mid 2000s, with his literary star on the rise, Michael Chabon read Thomas Pynchon’s then-latest novel, Against the Day, and fell so much in love with it he decided to use some back-channel c…

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