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  • I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

    "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.