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A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

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A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

Doctor Zhivago: the Banned Book the CIA Smuggled Across the Iron Curtain

Sally Rooney, a Flaubert for today?

Twenty-Seven Years on from The Satanic Verses: Can Works of Fiction be Political?

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