Stephen Marche is a novelist and an essayist.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Distortion
Searching for clarity in the age of Trump....
David Shields’s “Reality Hunger” in the Age of Trump; or, How to Write Now
Stephen Marche reflects on David Shields’s “Reality Hunger” in the age of Trump and the post-fact....
Celebrity Warfare: Image and Politics in the Age of Trump
Stephen Marche on how reality TV has transformed politics....
The Obama Years
Stephen Marche reflects on the Obama years....
The Literature of the Second Gilded Age
Thomas Piketty has shown that we are living in a Second Gilded Age. A literature for a second gilded age has already arrived....
At Last, an English Translation of “The Plum in the Golden Vase”
It’s about time the Chinese masterwork, “Chin Ping Mei,” received a decent English translation, and David Tod Roy has given us just that....
Literature Is not Data: Against Digital Humanities
'Big data is coming for your books.'...
