Tag: literature

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Morning Star

Trevor Quirk

August 16, 2023

As nature is disclosed, God hides.

A Doll’s House

Jamie Hood

August 15, 2023

In Rachel Ingalls’s fiction, unhappy housewives meet the uncanny.

Empty Suits

Bailey Trela

August 02, 2023

In the spy novels of Javier Marías, the late author never stopped reinventing himself.

Henry Threadgill’s Life in Music

Nate Wooley

July 25, 2023

A new jazz memoir subverts a familiar genre.

The Dark Side of the Jazz Age

Jessica Fletcher

July 10, 2023

On Ursula Parrott’s life and work.

Lorenza Mazzetti’s Kingdom for Children

Ian Wang

June 27, 2023

The writer-director rejected the bourgeois adult world.

Comey As You Are

Kenneth Dillon

June 22, 2023

James Comey’s will to power has nowhere to flourish but in his mind.

Brains on Drugs

John Semley

June 14, 2023

How consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Archival Frictions

Sadie Graham

June 13, 2023

Painting a fuller picture of lesbian experience.

Bad Romance

Elia Cugini

May 30, 2023

Erotic fiction is in a rut.

A Luso-Tropical Holy Grail

Meg Weeks

May 25, 2023

A classic of Brazilian modernism gets its due in a new translation.

Of Monsters and Men

Rhian Sasseen

April 20, 2023

What to do with the art of monstrous men?