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Literary Failure

There used to be the notion that Keats was killed by a bad review, that in despair and hopelessness he turned his back to the wall and gave up the…

Like This or Die

by Christian Lorentzen,

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

Like This or Die

by Harper’s Magazine,

What gets lost in the age of the algorithm

Atlas Aggregated

by Walter Kirn,

No social encounter delights me more than meeting a doctor at a cocktail party. In clinical settings, doctors tend to be guarded and aloof. Catch one with a whiskey in…

Counter Culture

by Caleb Crain,

Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms

Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” (1959)

by Harper’s Magazine,

A core piece in the canon of criticism on criticism

Literary entrails

by Cynthia Ozick,

The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin

Limnphomaniac

by Christian Lorentzen,

The following lines were culled from Michiko Kakutani’s New York Times book reviews by Christian Lorentzen. In some cases, tenses have been changed. Limn an entire life in a couple…

A Court of No Appeal

by Renata Adler,

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times

Vanity in review

by Paul Fussell,

The author's reply as a literary genre

The TBR 500

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Selling space

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Literary Failure

Like This or Die

Like This or Die

Atlas Aggregated

Counter Culture

Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” (1959)

Literary entrails

Limnphomaniac

A Court of No Appeal

Vanity in review

The TBR 500

March 1981

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