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Sep 29, 2025
In a pivotal scene in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), Travis Bickle works out in his filthy New York apartment.
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Aug 25, 2025
I started reading Leif Weatherby’s new book, Language Machines, because I was familiar with his writing in magazines such as The Point and The Baffler....
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Aug 11, 2025
Perfection is a modern-day myth. The recently translated novel, now shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, tells the story of Anna and Tom, a young European couple who...
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Jul 30, 2025
In 2000, James Wood coined the term “hysterical realism” to classify recently published novels by Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and...
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Jun 23, 2025
I first started reading Jon Fosse’s Septology in a bookstore. I read the first page and found myself unable to stop, like a person running on a treadmill at high...
Sep 29, 2025In a pivotal scene in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), Travis Bickle works out in his filthy New York apartment.
Aug 25, 2025I started reading Leif Weatherby’s new book, Language Machines, because I was familiar with his writing in magazines such as The Point and The Baffler....
Aug 11, 2025Perfection is a modern-day myth. The recently translated novel, now shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, tells the story of Anna and Tom, a young European couple who...
Jun 23, 2025I first started reading Jon Fosse’s Septology in a bookstore. I read the first page and found myself unable to stop, like a person running on a treadmill at high...