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Jul 28, 2026
Ben Lerner is a highly-acclaimed man of letters who’s written four novels about the daily life of a highly-acclaimed man of letters.
In these novels, the first-person...
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Jul 22, 2026
The Baffler is the prettiest magazine that I’ve reviewed so far. It is perfect-bound, 130ish pages in length, with matte covers, uncoated white paper and many full-color images...
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Jul 15, 2026
Upon turning forty, I gained a new appreciation for the classic mid-century affair novel (e.g. John Williams’s Stoner). You know the kind of novel I’m talking about....
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Jul 8, 2026
When I tell my friends that I am reading N+1, they all say the same thing: it’s not what it used to be.
Most of you, my readers, have never even heard of N+1, so you must find...
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Jun 25, 2026
Three months ago, I read Zoe Dubno’s Happiness and Love. And I really adored this novel, which is about a young woman, a writer, who goes to a dinner party full of trendy...
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Jun 4, 2026
For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a journal called The Drift, which is a young (less than five years old) socialist periodical that’s based in New York...
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May 27, 2026
There’s a set of books that you’ve probably already heard of. These are the ones that’ve been extolled by professors and critics. They’ve been referenced in...
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Apr 29, 2026
Let’s imagine that you’re an aspiring writer from Lincoln, Nebraska.
You move to New York and publish two well-received novels in your twenties. You work a few years on...
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Apr 6, 2026
Back in the year 1998, there was a thirteen-year-old boy who loved to read. This boy lived in Washington, DC, and every week he would get armfuls of books from the library. He mostly...
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Apr 1, 2026
To research my New Yorker story piece, I had to read a lot of literary biographies.
Most of these biographies are weighty tomes like Blake Bailey’s Cheever or Matt...
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Mar 11, 2026
I spent the month of February re-reading Les Miserables.
This novel is 1,500 pages long. It’s basically the same story as the musical, Les Miserables, which was one...
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Jan 28, 2026
Two months ago, I read a seven-hundred-page collection of short stories by John Cheever. But somehow that wasn’t enough. I went on to read seven-hundred-page retrospective...
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Jan 14, 2026
I have a bias against cool New York-based magazines. I generally associate them with chic radical politics and meaningless academic jargon.
But The Whitney Review of New...
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Jan 7, 2026
A Little Life is one of literature’s greatest traps.
For the first hundred pages, this novel cozily describes a group of four college friends and their petty tribulations...
Jul 28, 2026Ben Lerner is a highly-acclaimed man of letters who’s written four novels about the daily life of a highly-acclaimed man of letters. In these novels, the first-person...
Jul 22, 2026The Baffler is the prettiest magazine that I’ve reviewed so far. It is perfect-bound, 130ish pages in length, with matte covers, uncoated white paper and many full-color images...
Jul 15, 2026Upon turning forty, I gained a new appreciation for the classic mid-century affair novel (e.g. John Williams’s Stoner). You know the kind of novel I’m talking about....
Jul 8, 2026When I tell my friends that I am reading N+1, they all say the same thing: it’s not what it used to be. Most of you, my readers, have never even heard of N+1, so you must find...
Jun 25, 2026Three months ago, I read Zoe Dubno’s Happiness and Love. And I really adored this novel, which is about a young woman, a writer, who goes to a dinner party full of trendy...
Jun 4, 2026For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a journal called The Drift, which is a young (less than five years old) socialist periodical that’s based in New York...
May 27, 2026There’s a set of books that you’ve probably already heard of. These are the ones that’ve been extolled by professors and critics. They’ve been referenced in...
Apr 29, 2026Let’s imagine that you’re an aspiring writer from Lincoln, Nebraska. You move to New York and publish two well-received novels in your twenties. You work a few years on...
Apr 6, 2026Back in the year 1998, there was a thirteen-year-old boy who loved to read. This boy lived in Washington, DC, and every week he would get armfuls of books from the library. He mostly...
Mar 11, 2026I spent the month of February re-reading Les Miserables. This novel is 1,500 pages long. It’s basically the same story as the musical, Les Miserables, which was one...
Jan 14, 2026I have a bias against cool New York-based magazines. I generally associate them with chic radical politics and meaningless academic jargon. But The Whitney Review of New...
Jan 7, 2026A Little Life is one of literature’s greatest traps. For the first hundred pages, this novel cozily describes a group of four college friends and their petty tribulations...