How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

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Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

On the Death of a Young Poet and the Limits of Imagination

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Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

From Random House's First Female Literary Editor to Her Own Imprint

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

On the Impossible Allure of First Person Narcissists

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Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

On Misguided Spoiler Panic and Why We Should All Calm Down

By Jonathan Russell Clark | September 6, 2016

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning

By Mario Vargas Llosa | September 6, 2016

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On Xie Hong, Master of Chinese Unreality

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