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

By Wendy Smith | December 6, 2013

Photoillustration by David Herbick

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

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