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Nov 5, 2025
Literature loves to celebrate rescue as salvation. From Greek myth and the Bible through medieval romance, saving someone is framed as heroic deliverance—Perseus unchains...
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Sep 30, 2025
Literature loves to celebrate rescue as salvation. From Greek myth and the Bible through medieval romance, saving someone is framed as heroic deliverance—Perseus unchains...
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Jul 29, 2025
The idea that literary criticism is not merely a secondary reflection about literature but an autonomous form of intellectual and aesthetic production has deep roots in Western...
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Jul 15, 2025
Ross Barkan's new novel, Glass Century, is not just a novel about New York City—sprawling, relentless, multi-vocal, and haunted by the past as well as the future: it is a...
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May 23, 2025
I like crazy. I like the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, the deranged Humbert Humbert, the murderous Raskolnikov, the obsessed Heathcliff, the serial killers Patrick Bateman and Tom...
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May 9, 2025
Few contemporary American authors are as in touch with today’s zeitgeist as Matthew Gasda. His break-out play Dimes Square premiered in 2022 and was hailed as both...
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Mar 17, 2025
‘Sex sells” is a truism few would dispute—and it holds true for the successful career of the Irish literary star Sally Rooney who has remarked that in her...
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Mar 11, 2025
Whatever your feelings about the internet and its tortuous torrential stream of information, misinformation, fragments of dialogue, rants, advertisements, etc., it is, for better or...
Nov 5, 2025Literature loves to celebrate rescue as salvation. From Greek myth and the Bible through medieval romance, saving someone is framed as heroic deliverance—Perseus unchains...
Sep 30, 2025Literature loves to celebrate rescue as salvation. From Greek myth and the Bible through medieval romance, saving someone is framed as heroic deliverance—Perseus unchains...
May 9, 2025Few contemporary American authors are as in touch with today’s zeitgeist as Matthew Gasda. His break-out play Dimes Square premiered in 2022 and was hailed as both...
Mar 17, 2025‘Sex sells” is a truism few would dispute—and it holds true for the successful career of the Irish literary star Sally Rooney who has remarked that in her...
Mar 11, 2025Whatever your feelings about the internet and its tortuous torrential stream of information, misinformation, fragments of dialogue, rants, advertisements, etc., it is, for better or...