Jun 03, 2019
The Critic’s Notebook
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Constable and Turner, Paul Resika, the Albertine Prize & more from the world of culture.
Topic: “Contemporary Fiction”
May 31, 2019
Week in review
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On Shakespeare’s late plays, autofiction, Notre-Dame redux & more.
Fiction chronicle May 2019
Myths, legends & monsters
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On Metamorphica, by Zachary Mason; The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths of Cumberland County, by Mason Ball; 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno; Article 35: A Novel, by Tanguy Viel; and Rock and Roll Is Life, by D. J. Taylor.
Books May 2019
Scruton’s souls
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Fiction chronicle November 2018
Three dystopias & a disappearance
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On Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates; Kolyma Stories, by Varlam Shalamov; The Kremlin Ball, by Curzio Malaparte, & To the Back of Beyond, by Peter Stamm.
Aug 01, 2017
The Critic’s Notebook
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A Nazi’s trial, fictional exile & more from the world of culture.
Fiction chronicle May 2017
Sinners in the hands of an angry buddha
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On Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Autumn by Ali Smith, Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, Ill Will by Dan Chaon, & I’d Die For You by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Features March 2017
The fall of the house of Cazalet
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On the works of Elizabeth Jane Howard.
Fiction chronicle November 2016
The kids those days
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On The Girls by Emma Cline, The Nix by Nathan Hill, Prodigals by Greg Jackson, and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.