Cultural Dopes
The postmodernists had it right: all culture is the product of capitalism....
The postmodernists had it right: all culture is the product of capitalism....
GD Dess on Pauline Delabroy-Allard’s novel of obsessive, violent, transgressive, mind-altering love....
Sally Rooney is trying to tell us something. Politics are in the forefront, but I’m guessing there is a dark secret lurking in the background....
On the aesthetic sophistry and philosophical banality of the lyrical essay....
GD Dess speaks with Peter Stamm about his “optimistic belief in the possibility of transcendence.”...
GD Dess probes the meaning of emptiness in the novels of Peter Stamm....
GD Dess considers the complex female identities at the heart of the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante....
Patrick Modiano’s “The Black Notebook” is his latest to be translated into English....
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel "Purity" raises questions about the status of contract writers today....
GD Dess writes about the legacy of Nobel Prize–winner Patrick Modiano....