At Berfrois, Ed Simon shines light on Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, first published in 1733, and Madden’s legacy as a writer of Swiftian “novel prognostications”.
Daily Archives: May 16, 2019
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Inside the Threshing Machine
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season (trans. Sophie Hughes).The Palp and the Minute
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Anna MacDonald reviews Jenny Offill's Weather.Ostentatiously Unfamiliar
Jessica Payn reviews Eimear McBride's Strange Hotel.
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At Full Stop, Houman Barekat reads Jonathan Gibbs' The Large Door as a knowing throwback to a kind of novel swept away by postmodernism.Nathan Goldman on Ben Lerner
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