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How I solved The Library of Babel
 • Mazin Saleem
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Colour-blind casting as historical whitewashing
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Lincoln Michel and the fascinating tradition
 • Mazin Saleem
Why you hated Martin Amis
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The Evil Dream
 • Mazin Saleem
When I hear the word ‘gun’ I reach for my culture
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Intimate as sex
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
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I never thought it would have a happy ending
On The Office’s very special Christmas Specials
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Mazin Saleem
Of the writing on Substack there is no end
And much reading is a wearing of the self
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Mazin Saleem
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Round up YOUR DEAD
Or is that bring out?
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Mazin Saleem
Genocide out of sight, out of mind
Defining ‘The Zone of Interest’
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Mazin Saleem
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James Clarke and the triage of fiction
‘Sanderson’s Isle’, a new great British novel
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Mazin Saleem
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The doping scandal in literature
Reading between the lines, being scared of what I see
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Mazin Saleem
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Content harvest festival
An autumnal round-up
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Mazin Saleem
Professionalism is.
What makes a show perfect, and why The Office was
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Mazin Saleem
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Hitchcock: 'A film should be a slice of cake'; Alan Moore: 'Treat writing as if it were a god'; me: 'Art is god cake.'
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