Tag: literature

Columns

Life in the Fap Lane

Rob Madole

November 21, 2022

Reevaluating the work of John Barth.

Shirley Hazzard’s Republic of Letters

Anthony Domestico

November 16, 2022

For Hazzard, life and literature were warp and weft.

Yoko Tawada’s Enchanted World

Reed McConnell

October 31, 2022

The Japanese novelist productively unsettles her readers’ expectations.

Letters and Fists

Eka Kurniawan

October 17, 2022

The literary gems of Eka Kurniawan.

Annie Ernaux’s Total Novel of Life

Jamie Hood

October 03, 2022

On the French writer’s revelatory diaries.

Difficult People

Apoorva Tadepalli

September 29, 2022

The all-too-human novels of Gwendoline Riley.

The Sun Goeth Down

Christopher Urban

September 27, 2022

Jon Raymond approaches doomsday literature from aslant.

Rattling the Cage

Rhian Sasseen

September 21, 2022

Claiming authorship in the age of the internet.

On the Other Side of Despair

Wen Stephenson

September 15, 2022

Reading Camus in a time of nihilism and despair.

Portrait of the Artist as a Grown Man

Anthony Domestico

September 01, 2022

On T. S. Eliot’s later years.

Mother Knows Best

Bekah Waalkes

August 30, 2022

The anti-work novel gets a maternal twist.

Everyone’s a Critic

John Merrick

August 25, 2022

A radical tradition of cultural critique is at risk of extinction.