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The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

Even His Punctuation Gestured Toward the Trauma of History

By Nathan Goldman | May 18, 2018

Rereading <em>Little Women</em> in its 150th Anniversary Year

Rereading Little Women in its 150th Anniversary Year

Could it Mean as Much to Me in My Thirties as it Had in Adolescence?

By Rebecca Foster | May 16, 2018

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, <em>I Am a Cat</em>

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

A Comic Evocation of the Author's Deep Pessimism about His Own Humanity

By John Nathan | May 16, 2018

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

Her Fiction is a Scale Model Where People Wander Beautiful, Hostile Dreamscapes

By George Saunders | May 15, 2018

Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Theroux on the Existentialism of The Sheltering Sky

By Paul Theroux | May 11, 2018

Reading <em>The Golden Notebook</em> During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

On Doris Lessing's Exploration of the "Free Woman"

By Lara Feigel | May 10, 2018

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On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

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Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

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On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks

By Tobias Carroll | April 26, 2018

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

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