Exile on Fleet Street
Today, the mesmeric hold that Rupert Murdoch came to exercise over British public life has been broken.
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Future Tense
"Yes," said a Frenchman. "We have this silly theory in France that our authors should be able to eat."
Martin Beck Has a Cold
The police procedural is rich with political implications, a feature fundamental to Sjöwall and Wahlöö's literary accomplishment.
Ambush Haircuts
Punk’s devotees had a lot invested in how things were turning out; one’s music of choice was a territory to be defended...
Good Germans: On Heinrich Böll
What happens in Heinrich Böll's novels, and why am I calling them experimental?
Elephant Families
Triplets
Days of Infamy: John Dower's "Cultures of War"
John Dower’s Cultures of War avoids the pitfalls of doing history by analogy.
Why to Take Notes
Things Iowa Workshop Writers Say
Mapping the Bay Area
Snappy and Reckless: Richard Hallas’s “You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up”
The drifter, unfulfilled desire, misplaced guilt, a greed-ridden culture, street-level perspective — distilled into a coherent, kaleidoscopic whole.
Delight and Delectation: An Interview with Anne Germanacos
Two risks I court are keeping the fourth wall permeable and sticking closely to recognizable, lived stories.
Place of Grace
Richard’s amazing new memoir, House of Prayer No. 2, avoids the Old South clichés.
Model Villages, Short Stories, and Other Miniatures
When it comes to trying to make a piece of fiction, scaling down is an essential strategy. The world has "scalability" in spades.
Surviving the Cultural Revolution: Xiaoda Xiao’s “The Visiting Suit”
Xiao's powerful memoir of his years at a forced labor camp is written in unflinching, unadorned prose that ably conveys the horrors he witnessed.
Droll Ontology
Desire and despair smolder fulvous, pungent and sulphuric in Gronk’s black and white.
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