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Conclave is a religious film. I don’t mean that its subject matter is religion, but that its themes, narrative structure, and final denouem...

Harold Bloom once said that there were only four active great American novelists: Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip R...

A review of Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison (Coach House Books, 2023) On many of the Big Questions of literary theory, I’m a centrist,...

I recently read two crime thrillers published by NYRB Classics: In a Lonely Place (1947) by Dorothy B. Hughes and Fatale (1977) by Jean-Pat...

  Crowd control on the streets of Newark, 1967 “The Swede.” So begins Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning American Pastoral (1997), a novel of t...