The Novels Don’t Change, But We Do

Rereading those works that matter to us proves that books read us even as we read them

Photoillustration by David Herbick
Photoillustration by David Herbick

Rereading those works that matter to us proves that books read us even as we read them

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Wendy Smithis a contributing editor of the Scholar and the author of Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931–1940.

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