Last Summer in the City

Max Norman has written for newyorker.com, PublicBooks, Literary Review, and Apollo Magazine, among others. He is currently a graduate student in classics.

Max Norman

The Last of the Fucked-Up Mohicans: On Gianfranco Calligarich’s “Last Summer in the City”

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

Fiction

Footprints

Fossils Waiting to Be: On Stoicism in the Anthropocene

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Critical Theory

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Gilgamesh

Reading Old Books

Tradition and Its Discontents

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Max Norman has written for newyorker.com, PublicBooks, Literary Review, and Apollo Magazine, among others. He is currently a graduate student in classics.