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n. 4878, September 27, 1996; n. 4941, December 12, 1997; n. 5042, November 19, 1999; May 26, 2000; n. 5116, April 20, 2001; n. 5128, July 13, 2001; n. 5155, January 18, 2002; n. 5206, January 10, 2003. Copyright © 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by The Times Supplements Limited. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—The Washington Monthly, v. 28, January-February, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Washington Monthly Publishing, LLC, 733 15th St. NW, Suite 520, Washington DC 20005. (202) 393-5155. Website: www.washingtonmonthly.com. Reproduced by permission.—The Washington Post Book World, v. 10, March 30, 1980 for “The Painter’s Palette and the Camera’s Lens” by Peter Thompson; July 22, 1997 for “Music to One’s Eyes” by David Nicholson; May 7, 2000 for “Professor of Passion” by James Hynes. Copyright © 1980, 1997, 2000 by The Washington Post. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors—War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, v. 12, spring/summer, 2000 for “Kulturkampf, Now and Then” by David A. Boxwell. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Wilson Quarterly, v. 22, spring, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. 16, March 1, 1999 for “Good Intentions” by Jo Ann Citron. Copyright © 1999 by Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Reproduced by permission of the author.—World Literature Today, v. 73, autumn, 1999; v. 75, winter, 2001. Copyright © 1999, 2001 by World Literature Today. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher.

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Krupnick, Mark. From “Jewish Autobiographies and the Counter-Example of Philip Roth,” in American Literary Dimensions. Edited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio. University of Delaware Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Milowitz, Steven. From “Holocaust Writing,” in Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer. Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Steven Milowitz. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., and the author.

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