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Sep 2, 2025
One mark of a great motif is its ability to linger whether you understand it or not. I did not understand why every character in Alexander Sorondo’s debut...
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Jun 9, 2025
I can remember the first time I really understood the millennial obsession with authenticity. It was the summer of 2016, a few months after I moved to Seattle, as the bright lights...
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Apr 23, 2025
There’s a sense of heightened stakes when the most influential people on literary Substack release their most hyped novels a month apart. With John Pistelli’s Major...
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Feb 24, 2025
The customary Booker Prize winner is, like the MFA novels battling for the laurel, a product of many compromises. On the one hand, the legacy institutions cling desperately to the...
Sep 2, 2025One mark of a great motif is its ability to linger whether you understand it or not. I did not understand why every character in Alexander Sorondo’s debut...
Jun 9, 2025I can remember the first time I really understood the millennial obsession with authenticity. It was the summer of 2016, a few months after I moved to Seattle, as the bright lights...
Feb 24, 2025The customary Booker Prize winner is, like the MFA novels battling for the laurel, a product of many compromises. On the one hand, the legacy institutions cling desperately to the...