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The Long Tail of Boyhood Swagger

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By Lily Meyer Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
Tangled themes of violence and masculinity run like buried cables through Chang-rae Lee’s work. One of contemporary American literature’s major chroniclers of manhood, he’s been writing for three decades about assimilation, suburban alienation, and the mystery of how his characters survive loneliness and, often, shocking loss.
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The Part of Our Life We Too Often Forget

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By Lily Meyer Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
Reinvention can often seem like an inevitable part of getting older. The midlife crisis is practically baked into the American life cycle, at least in popular culture—a moment that can yield a new career, a new marriage, or, at the very least, a flashy new car.
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The Wisdom of Holden Caulfield

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By Lily Meyer Verified
| Süddeutsche Zeitung Verified
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger’s classic of adolescent alienation, turns 75 this summer, though it has the cast-iron reputation of a much older book. Just as Moby-Dick is canonically about whales, Catcher is canonically about phonies. Its narrator, Holden Caulfield, is tormented—though I likely don’t have to tell you this—by his awareness that society rewards and revolves around fakers.
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