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Merve Emre is professor of English at Oxford. She is the author of The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing and Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America.
Bad readers were not born, they were created. To know them is to understand literature and politics in postwar America.
The personal essay is not dead, but has it traded politics for style?
In Amanda Knox's new book, teen chick lit gives way to an insightful memoir from behind the prison walls.
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