Category: Books
The Talking Dead: Jia Tolentino and the Tradition ...
Posted by Arielle Isack | Jun 1, 2020 | Books, First Person | 0 |
Ben Streeter Sees the Neoliberalism in Helen DeWit...
Posted by Ben Streeter | Jan 23, 2019 | Books, Reviews | 0 |
What Happened, a Review
Posted by Matthew Barlow | Oct 19, 2017 | Books, Reviews | 0 |
Melissa Broder in Death Valley
by Courtney Fulcher | Nov 19, 2023 | Books
Melissa Broder was a poet until she moved to LA and started dictating in her car instead of...
Read MoreThe Talking Dead: Jia Tolentino and the Tradition of Women’s Talent
by Arielle Isack | Jun 1, 2020 | Books, First Person
Arielle Isack The first time I ever heard of Jia Tolentino was when an editor at our college...
Read MoreBen Streeter Sees the Neoliberalism in Helen DeWitt’s “Some Trick”
by Ben Streeter | Jan 23, 2019 | Books, Reviews
Some Trick, the new book of stories from Helen DeWitt, is merely a sixth as many pages as the...
Read MoreSt. Mawr
by James Livingston | Nov 6, 2018 | Books, Reviews
I don’t read a lot of fiction. I write a lot of it according to my colleagues among historians,...
Read MoreWhat Happened, a Review
by Matthew Barlow | Oct 19, 2017 | Books, Reviews
Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened (Simon & Schuster) In years of teaching, I have often...
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- THE MAR-A-LAGO AIR
- What Genre is “Succession”?
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