Tag: literature

Columns

Scold Habits Die Hard

Rafia Zakaria

May 29, 2020

On Lionel Shriver’s stale contrarian schtick.

Gatsbys of Our Time

Matt Hanson

May 18, 2020

On Fitzgerald’s novel and eternal American myths.

The Part About the Crimes

Will Noah

May 11, 2020

Fernanda Melchor's scorching novel of femicide.

Fine Print

Bradley Babendir

May 08, 2020

Writing about reading, outside of the publishing industry’s hype cycle.

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.

Homage to Albert Murray

Clifford Thompson

April 08, 2020

Reflections on the fifteenth anniversary of The Omni-Americans.

Robert the Late Modernist

Daniel Felsenthal

March 23, 2020

On Robert Glück and the New Narrative’s lost utopia.

Glass Girl

Philippa Snow

February 26, 2020

On Anna Kavan’s stories of disintegration.

Pod Save Antarctica

Emma Hager

February 06, 2020

In Weather, Jenny Offill tackles the Anthropocene.

Charity Believeth All Things

A. S. Hamrah

February 03, 2020

Last month, Semiotext(e) reissued Gary Indiana’s Depraved Indifference, originally published in 2001. Here is A.S. Hamrah’s introduction to the novel. We live in a time of exceptional, unprecedented grift, so much so that our era is turning the history of the United ...

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.