Tag: literature

Columns

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.

Dust to Dust

David Schurman Wallace

October 23, 2019

The oddly soothing apocalypses of László Krasznahorkai

Angry Young Men

Nathan Goldman

September 23, 2019

Ben Lerner studies the wreckage of white masculinity.

Conventional Wisdom

Nathan Goldman

April 03, 2019

Sally Rooney grapples with the tension between radical politics and the conventional pleasures of literature.

The Puppet Master

B.D. McClay

February 22, 2019

In the novels of Stoner author John Williams, everything happens suddenly and signifies nothing.

A Gender Study

Becca Rothfeld

January 28, 2019

A manipulative and self-important man is as ugly and generic as any Marriott.