Tag: literature

Columns

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.”

Kicking an Open Door

Bruce Robbins

December 10, 2024

Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything?

A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis

Apoorva Tadepalli

November 19, 2024

Fictionalizing the Modi era.

Ghosts in the Mirror

Stephen Piccarella

November 12, 2024

Two recent novels honor the last avant-garde.

My First Review

Arielle Isack

August 15, 2024

Abandon hope, all ye whose hours of daily screen time are in the single digits.

Infra-ordinary People

Cara Blue Adams

August 08, 2024

The anthropology of everyday life.