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Sunday Reading: Critics on the Classics

From The New Yorker’s archive, original reviews of literary masterworks, from “The Handmaid’s Tale” to “Invisible Man,” by Lionel Trilling, Clifton Fadiman, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Susan Lardner, Anthony West, Hilton Als, Susannah Clapp, and Judith Thurman.

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