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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.

No Mothers, No Daughters
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 ...