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Catherine Lacey’s Provocative Novel in Disguise

The first thing that you notice about Catherine Lacey’s new novel is the lack of a determiner. Nouns float, unhooked from any article....

Leslie Marmon Silko Saw It Coming

When I called the Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko, in January, to arrange an interview, her son answered the phone. His mother...

A Diary’s Unwanted Insights

In “Forbidden Notebook,” Alba de Céspedes upends the familiar story of self-liberation through writing. Source link

The Frictionless Charms of the Ferrante Cinematic Universe

Since the early twenty-tens, Elena Ferrante’s work has had a sirenic effect on adult women who identify as complicated and brainy. “The Lying...

How “Battle Royale” Took Over Video Games

In the mid-nineteen-nineties, Koushun Takami was dozing on his futon on the island of Shikoku, Japan, when he was visited by an apparition:...

“A Little Life” Is a Little Much

The proverbial straw that breaks “A Little Life”—the Dutch stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s maximally tortured, seven-hundred-and-twenty-page blockbuster 2015 novel—is a truck. Not...

The Feminist Novelist Who Turned “On the Road” on Its Head

In 1968, the British literary quarterly Ambit, under the editorial auspices of J. G. Ballard, Edwin Brock, and Martin Bax, ran an infamous competition...

A Début Novel About Projects and Projection

Perhaps you are the type of person for whom there is no question more chilling than: What are you working on? It suggests...

Mario Vargas Llosa Returns to the Dictator Novel

There have been two powers operating Guatemala after the Second World War, and solely one in all them was the authorities. The different,...

The Vital Wisdom of Wesley Brown’s “Tragic Magic”

“A thing never meant a thing until it moved.” Melvin Ellington, the protagonist of Wesley Brown’s novel “Tragic Magic,” arrives at this realization,...

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