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Not Reconciled
Greg Gerke reviews Gerald Murnane's A Million Windows.
Textures in Time
Katie da Cunha Lewin reviews Sara Baume's handiwork.
Reveries of a Solitary Reader
Andrew Key reviews Moyra Davey's Index Cards.
Let There Be Light
MacKenzie Warren reviews Jessica Sequeira's A Luminous History of the Palm.
Thrift, Drift, Grip, Glint, Live
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.

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Germán Sierra on Gary Lutz
November 12, 2019
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 …
Michael Bérubé on Autism Aesthetics
October 23, 2019
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".
Andrew Hungate on Zadie Smith
October 22, 2019
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.
Ed Simon on Harold Bloom
October 18, 2019
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.
Zadie Smith on Cultural Appropriation
October 17, 2019
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.
Natasha Boyd on Ben Lerner
October 10, 2019
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.
Houman Barekat on Jonathan Gibbs
September 30, 2019
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
September 25, 2019
Writing in The Baffler, Nathan Goldman admires the ambition but questions the achievements of Ben Lerner's forthcoming novel, The Topeka School...

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