Tag: criticism

Columns

Grist for the Rumor Mill

Megan Marz

February 18, 2020

Truth, lies, and trauma in the novels of Anna Burns.

Pod Save Antarctica

Emma Hager

February 06, 2020

In Weather, Jenny Offill tackles the Anthropocene.

The Poet of Infinite Longing

Dustin Illingworth

January 21, 2020

Desire and shame in the fiction of Garth Greenwell.

All-American Amnesia

Peter Goldberg

January 17, 2020

Gary Indiana follows the scams and the scammers.

Certain Unflattering Truths

Jennifer Schaffer

January 15, 2020

Anna Wiener infiltrates the panopticon.

The Action is the Juice

John Semley

January 14, 2020

Uncut Gems and Dark Waters crystallize how being alive today feels.

The Leftovers

John Semley

December 10, 2019

In The Irishman, mob opulence is eclipsed by ugliness.

All I Have Are Negative Thoughts

Andrew Marzoni

December 09, 2019

In his eighth novel, Michel Houellebecq ODs on Serotonin.

The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus

Andrew Marzoni

November 22, 2019

Music and fascism fifty years after Adorno

Angry Young Men

Nathan Goldman

September 23, 2019

Ben Lerner studies the wreckage of white masculinity.

The Sky in Upside-Down Land

Niela Orr

August 21, 2019

In The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Bandana, black men hold fast to territory they’ve been told they should abandon.

All About My Mother

Philippa Snow

July 19, 2019

In two new books, Kate Zambreno reckons again with the loss of her mother.