Feature: The New Canon
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The New Canon: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling— Is J.K. Rowling's writing just "clichés and dead metaphors" as Harold Bloom argues, or is there something more to Harry Potter?
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The New Canon: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy— In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy shifts quickly from loving descriptions of flora, fauna, and rocks into accounts of bloodthirsty violence.
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The New Canon: The Secret History by Donna Tartt— In The Secret History, Donna Tartt charts the path by which a clique of college students become cold-blooded killers.
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The New Canon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon— The line between comic book heroics and real life exploits is often blurred in Michael Chabon's fanciful novel
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The New Canon: Blindness by José Saramago— José Saramago explores the chaos that ensues when an epidemic of blindness spreads rapidly through society.
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The New Canon: The Road by Cormac McCarthy— In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a man and his son struggle for survival in the aftermath of a devastating cataclysm.
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The New Canon: The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa — In "The Feast of the Goat," Mario Vargas Llosa delivers a gripping account of a political cult of personality run amok.
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The New Canon: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski— Breaks almost every rule of fiction, from the typographical to the metaphysical.
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The New Canon: Atonement by Ian McEwan— Ian McEwan's masterful novel starts out like a Jane Austen country romance but ends up a post-modern meta-fiction.
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The New Canon: Possession - A Romance by A.S. Byatt— A.S. Byatt masterfully juxtaposes a modern day love story and a secret Victorian romance in a novel of academic intrigue.
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The New Canon: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace— In an age of down-scaled novels, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was four pounds of prose, and no fat!
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The New Canon: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami— In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami creates a strange world where magical dream landscapes intersect modern urban life.
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The New Canon: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem— Jonathan Lethem mixes superheroes and magical realism with a stark coming-of-age story.
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The New Canon: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson— In her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Marilynne Robinson finds transcendent poetry in the musings of a dying minister
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The New Canon: The Human Stain by Philip Roth— In The Human Stain, Philip Roth builds a rich multilayered novel from a tragic life observed from afar.
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The New Canon: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood— In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood raises issues about theocratic impulses and women's rights that are still relevant today.
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The New Canon: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez— Love in the Time of Cholera is one of the great love stories . . . or is it?
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The New Canon: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen— The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen deserves to remembered for more than just the "Oprah incident."
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The New Canon: Beloved by Toni Morrison— No novel of recent years has been more honored than Toni Morrison’s Beloved, but is it part of the Canon or the Anti-Canon?
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The New Canon: Underworld by Don DeLillo— Everything from Frank Sinatra to the nuclear arms race finds its way into Underworld, Don DeLillo's massive novel.
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The New Canon: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster— Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy is detective fiction with a distinctly post-modern flavor.
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