Tag: literature

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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.

Apex Predators and Elena Ferrante

G’Ra Asim

November 26, 2018

Once Audrey and I had drifted uneasily to sleep, the bat emerged seemingly from nowhere and soared about the room . . .

Mr. Difficult Jr.

Sho Spaeth

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.

Brutalist Fiction

J.W. McCormack

October 25, 2018

After reading Diane Williams, the classic short story seems like a sprawling black hole.

Motherhood!

Lauren Oyler

May 01, 2018

Sheila Heti's Motherhood is indeed a political novel. But it may not be about motherhood.

The Lunatic Face of Fiction

Olivia Parkes

April 10, 2018

On its fortieth anniversary: Joy Williams's “The Changeling” cracked the carapace of literary realism.

No Mothers, No Daughters

Jessa Crispin

March 27, 2018

Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.