Tag: literature

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Surrealism’s Beating Heart

Reed McConnell

February 18, 2021

On Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, and leaving musehood behind.

Tove Ditlevsen’s Fragmentary Self

Bailey Trela

January 25, 2021

On the radical facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy.

Winters of Discontent

Matt Hanson

December 17, 2020

Steinbeck was no stranger to bleak times.

Reality Bites

Rafia Zakaria

December 04, 2020

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the pursuit of literary fame.

Ruins of a Memory Palace

Francesca Wade

November 30, 2020

On Judith Schalansky’s imaginative archives.

Death of a Poet

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

November 27, 2020

The peculiar tragedy of J P Clark-Bekederemo.

Sure as Fate

Sophie Haigney

October 22, 2020

Uncertainty and destiny in the writings of Marilynne Robinson.

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

Lorna Scott Fox

September 14, 2020

Two new translations of a Brazilian Classic.

Mirror on Mirror

Stephanie Burt

July 27, 2020

Two parallel women, millennia apart, whose carefully acquired beauty made them patriarchy’s ideal targets.

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.