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How Can Fiction Predict a Future That's Already Happening?
Andromeda Romano-Lax on the Real Stakes of Speculative Fiction
By
Andromeda Romano-Lax
| July 13, 2018
Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel
"These Additions, My Agent Noted, Were Not Very Good"
By
Andrew Martin
| July 10, 2018
Not Everyone Loves Proust
Crushingly dull. Rather infantile. A mental defective?
By
Emily Temple
| July 10, 2018
Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything
An Essay on Fending Off Chaos
By
Lyn Hejinian
| July 5, 2018
Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?
From Jesus-Figure to Incestuous Impulses, 13 Critics Weigh In
By
Emily Temple
| July 2, 2018
Will a Woman Writer Win Italy's Strega Prize This Year?
Since First Awarded in 1947, Only 10 Women Have Won It
By
Jeanne Bonner
| July 2, 2018
Best Reviewed
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Why James Baldwin Went to the South and What It Meant to Him
By
Ed Pavlić
| June 29, 2018
The Enduring Enigma of Véra Nabokov
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Miranda Popkey
| June 28, 2018
Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories
By
Kristen Martin
| June 27, 2018
Richard Flanagan on Social Media and the Death of a Private Life
In an Ever More Conformist Age, Reading is a Subversive Act
By
Richard Flanagan
| June 21, 2018
A Close Reading of the 'Censored' Passages of
The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Basil Only Likes Dorian as a Friend, We Promise!"
By
Emily Temple
| June 20, 2018
Djuna Barnes: "The Most Famous Unknown of the Century!”
On the Queer, Modernist Classic
Nightwood
By
Ruth Joffre
| June 18, 2018
Havoc
: A Cynical (and Personal) Portrayal of Alcoholism
On Tom Kristensen's Novel of Cocktails, Chaos, and Dancing
By
Morten Høi Jensen
| June 18, 2018
Penelope Lively on Virginia Woolf: Serious Gardener?
On the Rich Landscapes of
To the Lighthouse
and "Kew Gardens"
By
Penelope Lively
| June 14, 2018
The 1961 Novel That Makes a Great Case for Moviegoing
On Walker Percy's
The Moviegoer
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| June 14, 2018
Stephen King: Master of Almost All the Genres Except "Literary"
From Horror to Fantasy to Feel-Good, He's Everywhere
By
Douglas E. Cowan
| June 13, 2018
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