Notebook June 2021
Denis Donoghue, 1928–2021
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On the Irish literary critic.
Topic: “Literary Criticism”
Books November 2020
Petrified Wood
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Features September 2020
Forests of Ardens
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On the Arden Shakespeare series.
May 10, 2019
Week in review
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On a Vermeer revealed, opening the museum vaults, the Venice Biennale & 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.
Verse chronicle December 2018
Identity cards
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On recent poetry by Frederick Seidel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Max Ritvo, sam sax, jos charles, and Ada Limón.
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.
Features November 2018
How to read Kafka: part II
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The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
Oct 26, 2018
Week in review
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On the ghosts of Kirk, a séance for Gaskell, the trouble with Trilling & more.
Oct 05, 2018
Week in review
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On fake art movements, Lolita’s crimes, Walter Laqueur & more.