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Notable & Quotable: Oh, the Humanities

‘If you want to understand Arundhati Roy, or Salman Rushdie, or Zadie Smith, you have to read Dickens.’

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From “The End of the English Major” by Nathan Heller for the New Yorker, Feb. 27:

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