The Best Books About Books: Part 3
From the Critical to the Personal, Reflections on Reading
May 10, 2017
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Entering Scoundrel Time: A New Literary Site Takes on Trump
"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did."
February 1, 2017
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn’t Need Them
On Misguided Spoiler Panic and Why We Should All Calm Down
September 6, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
The Best Books About Books: Part 2
On Works of Criticism by Cynthia Ozick, C.D. Wright, Teju Cole, and More
July 21, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)
On the 30th Anniversary of the Death of Jorge Luis Borges
June 14, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Will Anyone Read Chuck Klosterman
in 100 Years?
Even When Pop Culture Fades, Its Best Critics Don't
June 10, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Actually, Criticism Is Literature
Writing About the Art of Writing is an Art Unto Itself
June 2, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Skateboarding in Fiction: A Brief History of Failure
On Accuracy and Authenticity in Art
March 24, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
The Women of the World Poetry Slam Comes to Brooklyn
On Creating a Safe Space for All Voices to Be Heard
March 9, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism
A Highly Subjective and Idiosyncratic List Created Upon Moving House
March 4, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?
Remembering the Great Poet 20 Years After Her Nobel Prize
January 8, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016
Literary Resolutions from a Straight, White Male
January 4, 2016
By Jonathan Russell Clark
The Literary Star Wars, a History
George Lucas and His Heroes, From Flash Gordon to Francis Ford Coppola
December 18, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays
On 12 Books (and 4,554 Pages) by Journalists, Critics, Columnists, and Contributors
December 14, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell
One Novel Out of Many, Filled With Eternally Recurring Characters
November 16, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
This Year’s Charming National Book Award Underdog: Karen E. Bender
On Money, Craft, and Characters Who Can’t Stop Stealing
November 12, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Roxane Gay Wins the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award
"For Demonstrating exceptional courage in the defense of free expression.”
November 4, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno
Sentimental, Almost Cloying, Occasionally Saccharine, Often Wonderful
October 22, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature
A Last-Minute Plea on Behalf of Secular Miracles
October 7, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
The Time I Got Really Stoned and Interviewed Jesse Eisenberg
Sunday Night, You're Totally Baked, and a Movie Star Calls
September 29, 2015
By Jonathan Russell Clark
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