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Monday, June 26, 2023
Crossings (On Cormac McCarthy)
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Harold Bloom once said that there were only four active great American novelists: Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip R...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Dalgarno's Inferno
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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,...
Monday, October 17, 2022
The Oceanic and the Rifle Woman
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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...
Friday, March 4, 2022
American Pastoral
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Crowd control on the streets of Newark, 1967 “The Swede.” So begins Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning American Pastoral (1997), a novel of t...
Saturday, January 8, 2022
The White Nurse in Ian McEwan's Atonement
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In 1977 the German sociologist Klaus Theweleit published Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History , a study of the ephemera of...
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