Tag: literature

Columns

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.

Hell, or Catalonia

Adrian Nathan West

August 24, 2022

Catalan separatism under the microscope.

Oozing Class

Alexander Wells

August 15, 2022

On the border-crossing German novelist Wolfgang Hilbig.

Beyond the Frame

Rhian Sasseen

August 02, 2022

The forward-thinking sci-fi of Izumi Suzuki.

Hardwickian

Greg Gerke

July 28, 2022

The Uncollected Essays shows us another Elizabeth Hardwick.

Raging for the World That Is

Francesca Wade

July 27, 2022

Muriel Rukeyser’s political activities were inextricable from her literary experimentation.

El Alto Chronicles

Ruxandra Guidi

July 18, 2022

Quya Reyna is a young Aymara writer who casts a light urban indigeneity in Bolivia.

Invitation to a Flogging

Huda Awan

July 14, 2022

Ottessa Moshfegh’s crude omniscience.

The Woman without Qualities

Mariah Kreutter

July 12, 2022

Mieko Kawakami investigates feminine identity in the absence of consumption.