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A Year in Reading: Adam Wilson

Criticism isn’t generally thought of as escapist, but it’s where I turned when I needed a break during the early, childcare-less days of the pandemic. I realize this may sound counterintuitive, but hear me out; there’s a place farther afield than the imagined cities of Science Fiction and Fantasy—the realm of pure thought. What I wanted this year was for reading to render me

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