Merve Emre
Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Ferrante Letters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Cambridge: MIT, 2018) and a centennial edition of Mrs. Dalloway, forthcoming from Liveright.
Articles
Critical Love Studies
Writing about Sam See today, I am stunned to discover that his thoughts have been hiding in plain sight among my own.
Against "Friendship"
Merve Emre on Emily Gould's 'Friendship' and the reason Gawker snark and the novel are very different things.
James Franco and Matt Rager on 'As I Lay Dying'
James Franco and Matt Rager talk to LARB's Merve Emre about their film based on William Faulkner's great novel.
Feeling Blue: On Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d’Or winning film, Blue Is the Warmest Color, imagines what the world might look like if blue kept time with desire.
Spring Break Forever, Bitches: 1920s France Meets 2013 Florida
'Spring Breakers,' 'Tender is the Night,' & the American promise of spring break
The Queasy Question: On Rick Alverson's "The Comedy"
In Defense of 'The Most Walked-Out Film at Sundance 2012'
The Lost Novel: On Kerouac's "The Sea Is My Brother"
"The primordial scribblings preserved in 'The Sea is My Brother' offer us the fantasy of an unmediated encounter with Kerouac."