SAD BUT TRUE: I was just unable to think of any piece of fiction I could recommend as especially good*. Perhaps this is a sign I need to lighten up on the political science a bit.
*Actually, I managed two recommendations (Franny and Zooey and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). In fairness, some of the things I normally suggest (The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, A Tale of Two Cities) had already been read, and I was encouraged to avoid Russian literature (thus depriving me of Dostoevsky, Lermontov, Pushkin, etc) and poetry. Still...
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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