China and the Nobel III
On Gao Xingjiang and Lu Xun
On Gao Xingjiang and Lu Xun
Megan Shank, Jeffrey WasserstromNov 4, 2013
what may seem most revolutionary about Barthes’s essay is what it takes for granted: that there are readers at all for literary fiction
Lee KonstantinouMar 28, 2012
Some moments unfold in paragraphs and minutes, while others span pages and years.
Mindy FarabeeMar 21, 2012
what fine filling there is between the covers.
Mar 21, 2012
It can be entertaining, disordered, ruminative, wider in range than Houellebecq’s previous books
Domenick AmmiratiMar 12, 2012
One can only wonder what it would have been had Houellebecq actually believed in the novel as an art form.
Cécile AlduyMar 12, 2012
Valle-Inclán penned politically pointed plays that were to Spain as Brecht’s were to Germany.
Jeffrey TaylerFeb 19, 2012
Peter Mountford’s compulsively readable first novel is a book about money, a bildungsroman in reverse.
Chris KrausFeb 13, 2012
Hollinghurst’s objective is actually a wry, subversive critique of memorialization.
Jaya Aninda ChatterjeeFeb 13, 2012
The story eddies into a piercing family drama, in which its undercurrents of sadness and regret can finally rise to the surface.
Alison PowellJan 10, 2012
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way."
Cornel BoncaJan 8, 2012
We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition.
Lee KonstantinouJul 6, 2011
More polarizing than any other aspect of Franzen's writing is just how merciless he can be....
Joshua HardinaMay 4, 2011
By now we are tired of thinking about Freedom.
Matthew SpecktorMay 4, 2011