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Anatoly Grablevskyis the thirteenth and current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion.

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Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...