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Gallant deepens our understanding of the centrality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers to late medieval piety

exposed the truth about Communism to the world

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A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread Italy Gallant deepens our understanding ofJennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prizewinning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time. Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan's characters turn to rock and especially punk