What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk

Colton Valentine is a PhD candidate in English at Yale.

Colton Valentine

The Madeleine’s Metapragmatics: On Michael Lucey’s “What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

A Bid for History: On Leah Price’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

You Know You Want This

But Are You Sure?: On Kristen Roupenian’s “You Know You Want This: ‘Cat Person’ and Other Stories”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Qui a tué mon père

Benjamin Bernard is a PhD candidate in History at Princeton, currently on exchange at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 2018–2019 he will be a Chateaubriand Fellow sponsored by the French Embassy to the United States.

Benjamin Bernard

Toward A Different Solution: Édouard Louis, Émile Zola, and the Literary Accusation

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Colton Valentine is a PhD candidate in English at Yale.