Tag: literature

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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.

How Should a Person Tree?

Jack Hanson

February 14, 2022

On Sheila Heti’s creation myth.

Body and Soul

Sam Russek

January 31, 2022

Adrian Nathan West discusses body-building, mindfulness, and whether the self is an illusion.

Carnival of Souls

Dustin Illingworth

December 20, 2021

On the exhilarating bleakness of Rafael Chirbes’s fiction.

Lord of the Flies

Max Pearl

November 17, 2021

Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.

A Living Weapon in Your Hand

Francesca Wade

November 03, 2021

Diane di Prima's poetry combined revolutionary ideas and spiritual fervor.

Festival of Fear

Rafia Zakaria

October 22, 2021

The Jaipur Literature Festival serves as marketing for an increasingly repressive India.

The Novel According to Bezos

Megan Marz

October 21, 2021

Has Amazon changed literature?

The Story of the Lost Novel

Madeleine Crum

September 13, 2021

Reading the book Simone de Beauvoir decided not to publish.

Those Who Can Do

Dennis M. Hogan

September 02, 2021

Rewriting the history of literary studies, from inside the classroom

Unsolved Mysteries

Sophie Atkinson

August 30, 2021

In Passing Time, Michel Butor turns the detective novel inside out.