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You Can Go Home Again, and Again, and Again
Cory Oldweiler reviews the new translation of Danish author Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III).”
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Laboring in the Dream Factory
Harry Stecopoulos reviews Olivia Laing’s new novel “The Silver Book.”
On Adaptation: From Page to Screen
In November 2024, writers Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jonathan Ames, Anna Dorn, and Jane Hu gathered at LITLIT for a discussion with Paul Thompson about how it feels to take a work from book to screen.
Nothing Ever Happens: “Mister Squishy” and the Year of the Sentence Diagram
Hannah Smart writes about her attempt to diagram a 900-word sentence in David Foster Wallace’s “Mister Squishy,” and what the efforts taught her about human inertia and meaningless language.
Under the Surface
Adam Straus speaks with Yannick Murphy about her new novel “Things That Are Funny on a Submarine but Not Really.”
Hello, Kitty; Goodbye, Illusions
Minjie Chen takes a journey through China’s shadowlands in “Hello, Kitty and Other Stories” by Anne Stevenson-Yang.
Do You Like Me?
Madeline Howard interviews Anika Jade Levy about her debut novel, “Flat Earth.”
Pynchon’s Abundance
Travis Alexander revisits Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland,” arguing that it contains a prescient analysis of today’s liberal-leftist divide.
Finishing Last
Gracie Hadland relates to John Tottenham’s “Service.”
Enuf Is Enuf
Tom LeClair clop-clops through Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel “Tom’s Crossing.”
Beautiful Losing
Josh Billings wonders about Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s new novel “Your Name Here.”
Precious Vestiges of Something That Took Place
Claire Foster reviews Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.”
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