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Literary criticism

Race Against Death

From the introduction to a new edition of By Night in Chile, a novella by Roberto Bolaño that was published in 2000 by Editorial Anagrama. The book was translated from…

Glimmers of Totality

by Mark Greif,

Fredric Jameson at ninety

Yesterday’s Men

by Alan Jacobs,

The death of the mythical method

The Scavenger of History

by Wyatt Mason,

On Eliot Weinberger

The Serene Steamroller

by Joy Williams,

On Kafka

On David Foster Wallace

Host Jon Baskin, Violet Lucca,Guest Lauren Oyler

Reconsidering the man, the meme, and the writing

Comparative Literature

From similes used by the critic Dwight Garner in book reviews for the New York Times since 2017. Like frogs run over by a lawn mower Like a goose dementedly…

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

by Harper’s Magazine,

A core piece in the canon of criticism on criticism