Jessica Payn is an editor, ghostwriter, and freelance critic based in London. She holds an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature from the University of Cambridge, where she wrote her thesis on the cuteness of Stevie Smith.
To mark the publication of The Complete Gary Lutz, a monumental collection of stories by a renowned minimalist, Germán Sierra takes the pulse of Lutz's aesthetic project in a new …
In a review of three new academic texts at the Sydney Review of Books, Michael Bérubé sketches out a guide to reading literature through the lens of "autism aesthetics".
In a review of Zadie Smith's new story collection, Grand Union, for 3AM Magazine, Andrew Hungate finds himself struggling to isolate the virtues of the book.
At Berfrois, Ed Simon assesses the recent public responses to the death of Harold Bloom and ends up taking aim at everyone, sparing neither Bloom's admirers nor his detractors.
In a long, searching essay at the New York Review of Books, Zadie Smith makes the case against "cultural appropriation" by interrogating the language in which it is discussed.
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Natasha Boyd praises Ben Lerner's The Topeka School for its mastery of language and its mastery of the flow of time.
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