Tag: literature

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The Woman without Qualities

Mariah Kreutter

July 12, 2022

Mieko Kawakami investigates feminine identity in the absence of consumption.

Back to the Wall

Clare Sestanovich

June 22, 2022

The Wall studies the flimsiness of the self in isolation.

Patterns of Meaning

Robert Rubsam

June 09, 2022

Inside Gerald Murnane’s infinitely expanding mind.

Tricks of the Trade

Jack Hanson

May 25, 2022

In Emily Hall’s “The Longcut,” an artist prevaricates endlessly about the nature of her work.

Speaking of Memory

Ágnes Heller

May 19, 2022

How do we remember what we remember?

The Irreconcilable Fanny Howe

Jamie Hood

May 16, 2022

Fanny Howe’s oeuvre embraces unknowingness.

Working Landscapes

John Merrick

May 05, 2022

Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.

Lost in the Supermarket

Rhian Sasseen

May 04, 2022

Browsing the literature of the grocery store

A Fabric of Surfaces

Victoria Baena

April 27, 2022

Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John reaches across the years to pose questions of art, love, and self-possession.

Ask Dr. Mueller

Jeremy Lybarger

April 26, 2022

A downtown icon and John Waters muse, Cookie Mueller was devoted to beauty and pleasure.

Sex Miseducation

Whitney Strub

February 23, 2022

A bildungsroman of boomer hermeneutics.

Cold Comfort

Kristen Martin

February 21, 2022

Sarah Manguso’s icy debut novel.