Tag: literature

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Cuck-Coded Zarathustra

Adrian Nathan West

September 23, 2025

“Muscle Man” spurns anything that might have made it a novel with proper heft.

Imperfect Pleasures

Adrian Nathan West

September 04, 2025

What if this was the same, but about me?

Missed Connections

Anabelle Johnston

August 29, 2025

The placeless ambiguity of Kyung-Ran Jo’s fiction.

André Aciman’s Permanent Vacation

Crispin Long

June 25, 2025

“Life, he said with a light chuckle. Life indeed.”

The Time of Return

Rhian Sasseen

May 19, 2025

Can we escape history, or are we forever at its mercy?

Heteropessimism of the Intellect

Arielle Isack

April 25, 2025

On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment.

Kafka in Kurdish

Matt Broomfield

April 11, 2025

Burhan Sönmez goes “home” to his native language.

Whaling Upwards

Oscar Dorr

March 12, 2025

A new whaling novel finds the beastly in the everyday.

Perfecting the Art of Pedantry

Bailey Trela

February 20, 2025

Augusto Monterroso’s Rube Goldberg machine of self-critique.

The Barbarians Are Coming Today

Grayson Scott

February 05, 2025

Representing atrocity means taking a side.

Abbey’s Road

David Schurman Wallace

January 08, 2025

Where are all the ecoterrorists?

The Poet Is Present

Zoë Hitzig

December 13, 2024

A conversation with Ryan Ruby, author of “Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry.”