Tag: criticism

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Loose Change

Madeleine Crum

March 18, 2021

A new novel’s conflict plays out in dollars and cents.

The Talking Cure

Hannah Gold

March 03, 2021

On Christine Smallwood’s novel of neuroses.

The Life and Death of the Dream Job

Raechel Anne Jolie

February 25, 2021

A new book by Sarah Jaffe reminds us that work is only a means to an end.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

February 23, 2021

Fifty Shades of Grey with Iowa MFA bona fides

Live, Laugh, Log Off

Becca Rothfeld

February 17, 2021

Patricia Lockwood’s “internet novel” belies its categorization.

Head in the Cloud

Megan Marz

February 04, 2021

Google: How do you write a memoir of the internet?

Tove Ditlevsen’s Fragmentary Self

Bailey Trela

January 25, 2021

On the radical facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy.

So the Story Goes

Yelena Furman

January 11, 2021

On the colloquial tales of Nikolai Leskov.

Winters of Discontent

Matt Hanson

December 17, 2020

Steinbeck was no stranger to bleak times.

Portrait of the Artist as Content Creator

John Semley

December 15, 2020

On Mank and The Godfather Coda.

For Heaven’s Sake

Adam Willems

December 07, 2020

On the tangled history of Christian communism.

Ruins of a Memory Palace

Francesca Wade

November 30, 2020

On Judith Schalansky’s imaginative archives.