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The Naïf Goes to the Everything Store: On Mark McGurl’s “Everything and Less”
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The Future Is Always with Us: On Jennifer Marie Brissett’s “Destroyer of Light”
Steven Shaviro reviews the new novel by Jennifer Marie Brissett, “Destroyer of Light.”...
The Future Is Always with Us: On Jennifer Marie Brissett’s “Destroyer of Light”
Steven Shaviro reviews the new novel by Jennifer Marie Brissett, “Destroyer of Light.”...
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Friendly Dockings: On Khal Torabully’s “Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude”
An inspired tribute to a people taken from their homes and forced into labor....
Friendly Dockings: On Khal Torabully’s “Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude”
An inspired tribute to a people taken from their homes and forced into labor....
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The Fashionable Forms of Despair: A Recovered Interview with Saul Bellow
Fred Hardwick presents his long-unpublished interview with Saul Bellow, conducted at Brandeis University in 1977, the year after Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize....
The Fashionable Forms of Despair: A Recovered Interview with Saul Bellow
Fred Hardwick presents his long-unpublished interview with Saul Bellow, conducted at Brandeis University in 1977, the year after Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize....
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Lost in Melancholy: On Sébastien Japrisot’s “Rider on the Rain”
Collin Mitchell examines the hazy disquietude of Sébastien Japrisot’s “Rider on the Rain.”...
Lost in Melancholy: On Sébastien Japrisot’s “Rider on the Rain”
Collin Mitchell examines the hazy disquietude of Sébastien Japrisot’s “Rider on the Rain.”...
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Orwell’s Many-Thorned Bomb Shelter: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Andrea Hoag interviews Rebecca Solnit about her new book on George Orwell, “Orwell’s Roses.”...
Orwell’s Many-Thorned Bomb Shelter: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Andrea Hoag interviews Rebecca Solnit about her new book on George Orwell, “Orwell’s Roses.”...
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Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Pandemic Edition, Part II
Lisa Russ Spaar takes a second look at second books by poets Nate Klug, Christopher Kempf, and Carey Salerno....
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Pandemic Edition, Part II
Lisa Russ Spaar takes a second look at second books by poets Nate Klug, Christopher Kempf, and Carey Salerno....
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Stephen King’s Mind Crimes
The celebrated horror novelist is rapidly becoming one of our best contemporary crime writers....
Stephen King’s Mind Crimes
The celebrated horror novelist is rapidly becoming one of our best contemporary crime writers....
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Conjuring in Wartime: Colm Tóibín Evokes the Art of Thomas Mann
A novel about the life of Thomas Mann is a huge canvas, finely observed....
Conjuring in Wartime: Colm Tóibín Evokes the Art of Thomas Mann
A novel about the life of Thomas Mann is a huge canvas, finely observed....
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Sci-Fi Graphic Novel “Displacement” Confronts the Trauma of Incarceration
Cartoonist Kiku Hughes uses time travel to understand her grandmother’s experience in a Japanese American concentration camp....
Sci-Fi Graphic Novel “Displacement” Confronts the Trauma of Incarceration
Cartoonist Kiku Hughes uses time travel to understand her grandmother’s experience in a Japanese American concentration camp....
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A Labyrinth of Disillusion: On David Peace’s “Tokyo Redux”
Tara Cheesman reviews “Tokyo Redux,” the final installment of David Peace’s Tokyo Trilogy....
A Labyrinth of Disillusion: On David Peace’s “Tokyo Redux”
Tara Cheesman reviews “Tokyo Redux,” the final installment of David Peace’s Tokyo Trilogy....
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Sholom Aleichem Against “Edelkeyt”: A Conversation with Curt Leviant
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt asks Curt Leviant about translating “Moshkeleh the Thief,” a long-lost novel by Sholom Aleichem....
Sholom Aleichem Against “Edelkeyt”: A Conversation with Curt Leviant
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt asks Curt Leviant about translating “Moshkeleh the Thief,” a long-lost novel by Sholom Aleichem....
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Melodrama and the Abyss: On María Amparo Escandón’s “L.A. Weather”
Yxta Maya Murray finds a call to action with the melodrama of “L.A. Weather” by María Amparo Escandón....
Melodrama and the Abyss: On María Amparo Escandón’s “L.A. Weather”
Yxta Maya Murray finds a call to action with the melodrama of “L.A. Weather” by María Amparo Escandón....
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A Desperate Sadness and an Unapologetic Levity: On Jonathan Coe’s “Mr Wilder and Me”
The author’s latest novel is a love letter to one of his major aesthetic influences....
A Desperate Sadness and an Unapologetic Levity: On Jonathan Coe’s “Mr Wilder and Me”
The author’s latest novel is a love letter to one of his major aesthetic influences....
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A Tender Irish Elegy: Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You”
Rooney’s new novel is redolent with the Irish verities of Catholicism and James Joyce....
A Tender Irish Elegy: Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You”
Rooney’s new novel is redolent with the Irish verities of Catholicism and James Joyce....
Finding Meaning in Dire Times: Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You”
Rooney’s third novel oscillates between the perspectives of two close female friends in their late 20s....
Finding Meaning in Dire Times: Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You”
Rooney’s third novel oscillates between the perspectives of two close female friends in their late 20s....
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“The Cold Clarity We Need”: On Katie Peterson’s “Life in a Field”
Teow Lim Goh considers “Life in a Field” by Katie Peterson....
“The Cold Clarity We Need”: On Katie Peterson’s “Life in a Field”
Teow Lim Goh considers “Life in a Field” by Katie Peterson....
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Crisis Industry: On Simon Hanselmann’s Pandemic Webcomic
What a graphic novel about disaffected stoner monsters reveals about the political and economic crises of the pandemic....
Crisis Industry: On Simon Hanselmann’s Pandemic Webcomic
What a graphic novel about disaffected stoner monsters reveals about the political and economic crises of the pandemic....
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