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The 100 Best One-Star Reviews of
The Catcher in the Rye
"If I had written this book, I would have gone into hiding too"
By
Emily Temple
| July 16, 2018
Watching
The Handmaid's Tale
While Transitioning
Veronica Esposito on Encountering Misogyny in a New Way
By
Veronica Esposito
| July 16, 2018
Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need
Diana Gabaldon on a Neglected Classic by John Rollin Ridge
By
Diana Gabaldon
| July 16, 2018
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
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything
By
Lyn Hejinian
| July 5, 2018
Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?
By
Emily Temple
| July 2, 2018
Will a Woman Writer Win Italy's Strega Prize This Year?
By
Jeanne Bonner
| July 2, 2018
Why James Baldwin Went to the South and What It Meant to Him
"Everybody Else was Paying Their Dues, and it was Time I Went Home and Paid Mine"
By
Ed Pavlić
| June 29, 2018
The Enduring Enigma of Véra Nabokov
Why We Can't Stop Trying to Figure Her Out, in Fiction and Biography
By
Miranda Popkey
| June 28, 2018
Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories
"The Way We Tell Them Gives Us Permission to Look Away from Obvious Patterns"
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
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