Daniel Levin Becker is reviews editor of the Believer. "La Bibliotheque Impossible" is adapted from Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, which will be published in April by Harvard University Press.

• February 2012: La Bibliothèque Impossible
  Parsing the inner lives of three dozen venerated French experimentalists through a roomful of their marginalia.
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  May 2011: Review of Fabolous’s “I’m Raw”
• January 2011: Schema: Hip-hop Labels