I’m Feeling Bad About America
The campaign song is frequently the porch popular music crawls beneath before it rolls into the fetal position and dies.
J.W. McCormack
J.W. McCormack is the literary editor of The Baffler.
Brutalist Fiction
October 25, 2018
After reading Diane Williams, the classic short story seems like a sprawling black hole.
Begone, President!
June 18, 2018
The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, merely confirms the claim of its title.
The Book of No Despair
March 26, 2018
Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.
The Ovid of Loserdom
January 22, 2018
In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.
The Story of a Face
January 3, 2018
We are trying to read the story of a teenage girl, but Marguerite Duras is trying to tell us something else.
Tom Hanks: Typewriter Fetishist
October 18, 2017
The impregnable constellation we call “Tom Hanks" has gifted us with a collection of typewriter-fetish fiction.
The Past Is a Foreign Agent
September 19, 2017
The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.