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Latest Reviews

  • Inside the Threshing Machine

    Daniel Davis Wood reviews Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season (trans. Sophie Hughes).

  • The Palp and the Minute

    MacKenzie Warren reviews Alice Lyons' Oona.

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    Daniel Davis Wood reviews Cathy Sweeney's Modern Times.

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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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