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James Campbell

James Campbell is the author of Exiled in Paris and Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was for many years an editor and columnist at the Times Literary Supplement in London.

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James Campbell
The case of Jonathan Franzen.
James Campbell

Does literature really need a "gold standard"?

James Campbell
The pages of Neurotica.
James Campbell

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