Andrew Martin has an excellent review of Nell Zink's five novels. I read several reviews of her work before getting … More
Category: General Literature
Worldmaking and Showrunning: The End of Game of Thrones
So I watched the series finale of Game of Thrones on Sunday night. Watching the finale it occurred to me that … More
The Last Pages of Philip Roth
It's possible, although I can't confirm it, that Philip Roth passed away at the very moment I was reading the … More
The President of Magical Thinking
From Michael Chabon's open letter to "our fellow Jews, in the United States, in Israel, and around the world." The … More
The Literature of Traumas to Come: The Novel in the Age of Trump
In the days leading up to the election last November, many people vowed if Donald Trump was elected they … More
Red Counties, Blue Counties, and the Pastoral Idyll
We've all seen the 2016 election results maps: isolated spots of blue surrounded by vast fields of red. If the … More
Mr. Analog Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
In June 1970 Bob Dylan released Self-Portrait, a double album of original songs and covers. Dylan's mystique was then at … More
The Rooting Hog King (or President)
Richard [III], as Shakespeare conceived him, was inwardly tormented by insecurity and rage, the consequences of a miserable, unloved childhood … More
What Karl Ove Knausgaard Learned from Walter Benjamin
In a nice acceptance speech for the Welt Literaturpreis, Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses what he learned from Walter Benjamin about … More
Ukrainian Literature’s Executed Renaissance
Every national literature is always in some form of crisis, but the crisis of Ukrainian literature is a special case. … More
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