It’s worth reminding our readers that in addition to catching up on the latest about politics and foreign policy on Contentions, you also need to be reading our new Literary Commentary blog where D.G. Myers writes about books.

In recent days, Myers has debunked the myth of “literary fiction” (“There is good fiction, there is bad fiction, and there is fiction written in creative writing workshops.”), eviscerated the notion that Phillip Roth’s Plot Against America can tell us anything about the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, as well as giving us his take on the best sickroom reading and the best baseball books.

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