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Charity Believeth All Things
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 Puppet Master
February 22, 2019
In the novels of Stoner author John Williams, everything happens suddenly and signifies nothing.

Mr. Difficult Jr.
November 14, 2018
The new "William Gass Reader" celebrates the great essayist and philosopher—but it's Gass's fictions that will stand the test of time.

Motherhood!
May 01, 2018
Sheila Heti's Motherhood is indeed a political novel. But it may not be about motherhood.