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Flaubert’s obsessive masterpiece finally gets the obsessive translation it deserves.

Roald Dahl�the storyteller as benevolent sadist.

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom illustrates, crankily, the joys of the old-timey literary novel.

Movie star, conceptual artist, fiction writer, grad student, cipher�he’s turned a Hollywood career into an elaborate piece of performance art. But does it mean anything? A critical investigation, with bathroom break.

Comedy’s spectacularly original Reggie Watts is guided by voices�and music and radio static and polycarbonates and robots and �

On David Lipsky’s book-length David Foster Wallace interview, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself.

A sexy novel about sex�and sex alone�has reenergized him, just when his fans were giving up hope.

Anne Carson’s deeply moving scrap heap.

The history of the vocoder, cryptography’s top-secret funk machine.

Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany’s loopy sci-fi masterpiece, lives to destroy again.