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- "Fair and Balanced," The Nation, 6 February 2012
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- "Beer Buddies," Bookforum, February/March 2010
- "Terms of Infringement," The National (Abu Dhabi), 21 January 2010
- "Semantic Time Travel," New York Times Magazine, 10 January 2010
- "Against Camel Case," New York Times Magazine, 29 November 2009
- "Keats Speaks," New York Times Magazine, 1 November 2009
- "A Very Different Pakistan," New York Review of Books, 5 November 2009
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About
- This blog is written by Caleb Crain. There's an email address for me at the top of my bio page. For older posts on this blog, please check the online archives. A selection of the blog's posts, spanning six years, has also been collected as a book, titled The Wreck of the Henry Clay.
