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Akhil Sharma
Adele Schiff Professor of the Practice of English
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akhil.sharma292@duke.edu
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This Place Feels Like Hell and I Want to Go Home and Do You Mind Giving Me a Ride
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Juked
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July 17, 2008
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Butter.
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Lancet
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May 28, 1983
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You Are Happy?
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The Well
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A Life of Adventure and Delight
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A Mistake
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We Didn't Like Him
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Mother and Son
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Granta
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Surrounded by Sleep
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Prosperity
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A Heart is Such a Heavy Thing
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Cosmopolitan
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If You Sing Like That For Me
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The Blue Umbrella Man
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The Train
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Friction Magazine
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When You're the Bad Guest
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Pipe Dreams: A Tour of Germany's Historic Organs
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Postcard from...Easter Island
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Cowboys of the Wild South
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Different Strokes
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Wyoming: Where the Wildflowers Are
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Paris by Light
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Chekhov's Beautiful Nonfiction
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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, book of a lifetime
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Radar, The Independent Arts Supplement to the Telegraph
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The Money Myth
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Chased Away
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To Say, I'm Sorry
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Elle UK
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I Resent My Wife's Earning Potential
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Elle
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A Novel Like a Rocket
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The Trick of Life
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The Secret of my Success
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Turkey's New Luxury Tourism
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A Cheapskate's Ideal Vacation
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Seeing London, Under Advisement
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Hiking Along Italy's Amalfi Coast
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The Forgiven: Lawrence Osborne's Masterful Mystery
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Akhil Sharma Reflects on Trieste
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The Maldives: Heaven Can't Wait
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Paris Enchants in Winter
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A Fragile Island Eden
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Conjuring Peru's Lost Empire
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British Himalaya
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L' Espresso
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Plying the Waters of Yangtze
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Walk on the Wild Side
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Best Life
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A Visit to an Old Greek Canal
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Recollections of a Hindu Hedonist
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A Russian Epic Translated Anew (review of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy)
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The Escape Route
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