The Madeleine’s Metapragmatics: On Michael Lucey’s “What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk”When your dinner-party host offers you a madeleine, how do you respond, and why?...COLTON VALENTINELITERARY CRITICISM
A Bid for History: On Leah Price’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books”Colton Valentine talks about “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books” by Leah Price....COLTON VALENTINENONFICTIONCULTURAL STUDIES
But Are You Sure?: On Kristen Roupenian’s “You Know You Want This: ‘Cat Person’ and Other Stories”Colton Valentine reviews Kristen Roupenian's short story collection "You Know You Want This" and finds there's more to it than "Cat Person" retreads....COLTON VALENTINEFICTION
Toward A Different Solution: Édouard Louis, Émile Zola, and the Literary AccusationBENJAMIN BERNARD, COLTON VALENTINEAROUND THE WORLDFICTIONPOLITICS