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Jonathan Franzen

Come as You Are

by Adam Kirsch,

On Zadie Smith and the Gen X novel

Status Anxiety

by Alan Jacobs,

Has Jonathan Franzen found the key?

The Prisoner of Sex

by Elaine Blair,

Franzen and the women

A Different Kind of Father

by Jonathan Franzen,

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

Heartache and the Thousand Natural Shocks

by Christine Smallwood,

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom

Literary entrails

by Cynthia Ozick,

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

Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as we Know It

by Ben Marcus,

A correction

Perchance to dream

by Jonathan Franzen,

In the age of images, a reason to write novels

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