Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a novelist and an essayist.
Articles
The Pursuit of Clarity in a Time of Plague
Stephen Marche ponders the current plague and its untold, untellable stories.
The Crisis of Intimacy in the Age of Digital Connectivity
The internet’s quintessential, paradoxical message is “Only Connect.”
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.