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Mar 16, 2026
A writer is forever at risk of hubris. A writer plays god, after all; he or she is a shaper of reality, a giddy or miserable tyrant, the sole purveyor of whatever currents pass...
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Mar 2, 2026
When did reality start to outstrip fiction for good? Philip Roth believed it was all happening around 1961. “The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands...
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Feb 17, 2026
I confess, at the outset, I won’t spend as much time on this essay as I’d like. I am under pressure to finish a nonfiction book by the spring, and that eats up a lot of...
Mar 16, 2026A writer is forever at risk of hubris. A writer plays god, after all; he or she is a shaper of reality, a giddy or miserable tyrant, the sole purveyor of whatever currents pass...
Mar 2, 2026When did reality start to outstrip fiction for good? Philip Roth believed it was all happening around 1961. “The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands...
Feb 17, 2026I confess, at the outset, I won’t spend as much time on this essay as I’d like. I am under pressure to finish a nonfiction book by the spring, and that eats up a lot of...