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Fooled You: On Donna Tartt’s Genre Fiction

Richard Joseph ponders Donna Tartt’s curious exclusion from the “genre turn” canon....

Oct 2

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RICHARD JOSEPH

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The Philosophy of Shittiness: On Kieran Setiya’s “Life Is Hard”

Helena de Bres reviews Kieran Setiya’s new book, “Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.”...

Oct 2

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HELENA DE BRES

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

Dreaming New Worlds: A Conversation with Ekow Eshun

Eric Newman interviews Ekow Eshun, curator of “In the Black Fantastic,” a recent speculative arts exhibit at London’s Hayward Gallery and its eponymous companion book from MIT Press....

Oct 1

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ERIC NEWMAN

Survival Strategies: On Meghan Gilliss’s “Lungfish”

Amanda Paige Inman reviews Meghan Gilliss’s debut novel “Lungfish.”...

Oct 1

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AMANDA PAIGE INMAN

The Music of the Ordinary: On Stanley Cavell’s “Here and There”

Michael S. Roth considers Stanley Cavell's "Here and There: Sites of Philosophy."...

Sep 30

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MICHAEL S. ROTH

Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less Is Lost”

Andrew Sean Greer joins Eric Newman to talk about “Less Is Lost,” a sequel to his 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, “Less.”...

Sep 30

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Bathroom (2021) and Align (2019) from JOKE (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

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Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less Is Lost”

Andrew Sean Greer joins Eric Newman to talk about “Less Is Lost,” a sequel to his 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, “Less.”...

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Dickens for the Civil Rights–Era South: On Joseph Allen Boone’s “Furnace Creek”

Suzanne Keen reviews Joseph Allen Boone’s new novel “Furnace Creek.”...

SUZANNE KEEN

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A Cartography of Redemption: On Heimito von Doderer’s “The Strudlhof Steps”

Joshua Hren reviews the first English translation of Heimito von Doderer’s “The Strudlhof Steps,” by Vincent Kling....

JOSHUA HREN

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Which Way the NAACP: On A. J. Baime’s “White Lies” and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s “Civil Rights Queen”

Randal Jelks considers two books about underappreciated Civil Rights figures, A. J. Baime’s “White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret” and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s “ Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”...