As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads.
July 14th, 2011
The legacy of the hurricane in literature and Louisiana
October 17th, 2012
Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
On Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford
March 14th, 2013
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
January 4th, 2012
Let’s say it’s 1978 and you are Dan J. Marlowe, once one of the hottest suspense novelists of your day
March 10th, 2012
Reclaiming the category of 'hybrid' — Yépez's counterpoetics
January 19th, 2013
An excerpt from "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
July 8th, 2011
By Nightfall, like The Hours, is chock full of literary reference, especially Thomas Mann (Death in Venice), not Virginia Woolf.
November 19th, 2011
Faulkner tried the personae of mentor, father figure, and literary conduit in an effort to have a love affair that trumped the other roles.
December 11th, 2011
On literary sociality and the romance between William Faulkner and Joan Williams.
January 6th, 2012
On Tom Perrotta’s post-millennial suburban humanism.
October 11th, 2011
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