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Crudo, She Tweeted: Olivia Laing’s “Crudo”
With "Crudo," Olivia Laing appropriates Twitter’s trademark intonation, writing in a flippant voice, concise to the point of discarding most punctuation.
Lauren SarazenNov 22, 2018
- Fiction
The Craft Is All the Same: A Conversation with Victor LaValle
Ayize Jama-Everett interviews Victor LaValle about horror and diversity.
Ayize Jama-EverettNov 22, 2018
- Fiction
- SF
A Proust of One’s Own: Anthony Powell’s 20th Century
Sylvia Brownrigg revisits the work of Anthony Powell, a Proust of midcentury Britain.
Sylvia BrownriggNov 22, 2018
- Biography & Autobiography
- Fiction
A Book for a Rainy Day
When I was a kid we were forced to read for 15 minutes a day in school...
Joanna ChenNov 22, 2018
A Mutual Bewitchment
A literary friendship, scrupulously enshrined.
Greg GerkeNov 21, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Poetry
A Sidelined People: On the Crisis in Palestine
Two new books examine the consequences of the failed bid for Palestinian statehood.
Sam RisakNov 21, 2018
Indirect Victims of Savagery
Chip Rossetti reviews “Baghdad Noir,” edited by Samuel Shimon and featuring writing by Ahmed Saadawi, Ali Bader, and Roy Scranton.
Chip RossettiNov 21, 2018
- Around the World
- Noir
The Women Who Knew Howard Hughes
Chris Yogerst reviews Karina Longworth’s "Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood."
Chris YogerstNov 21, 2018
In the Era of #MeToo, Men Don’t “Know” About Predatory Men — but Women Do
"When my safety is at stake, I rely on a more accurate knowing: the intuition born of my trauma. It is enough for me and for most women."
Libby LenkinskiNov 20, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
Economic and Literary Speculations
"How can the novel, and in particular the realist novel, deal with an event like the flash crash of 2010 or something like high-frequency trading?"
Mikkel Krause FrantzenNov 20, 2018
Students Want to Write Well; We Don’t Let Them
Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s new manifesto for the writing classroom.
Ryan BoydNov 20, 2018
- Education
There’s No Use Holding Back: An Interview with Heather Rose
Robert Wood interviews Heather Rose, author of "The Museum of Modern Love."
Robert WoodNov 20, 2018
Bruno Schulz: The Shadow of the Word
Philip Ó Ceallaigh goes in search of Bruno Schulz 76 years after his murder.
Philip Ó CeallaighNov 19, 2018
Cynical Satire and Civic Optimism Across the American Heartland
Danielle Charette read-trips through Gary Shteyngart’s “Lake Success” and James and Deborah Fallows’s “Our Towns.”
Danielle CharetteNov 19, 2018
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
The Thin White Line
Joseph Darda on the thinly veiled racial politics of the “blue lives matter” bill.
Joseph DardaNov 19, 2018
- Politics
Memorializing the Present: Montgomery’s New Legacy Museum
Jeffrey Lawrence discusses Montgomery’s new Legacy Museum and its radical approach to African-American history.
Jeffrey LawrenceNov 19, 2018