The Noise of Our Names: On “Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies”
Lee Konstantinou reviews "Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies" by Toril Moi, Rita Felski, and Amanda Anderson.
Lee Konstantinou reviews "Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies" by Toril Moi, Rita Felski, and Amanda Anderson.
Are we in the Postcritical Age?
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An interview and review with Jonathan Lethem, on his latest novel Dissident Gardens
Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens is an assured, expert literary performance by one of our most important writers.
A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed are minor masterpieces of the dystopian subgenre and are unusually clear in their anxieties
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WHEN DAVID FOSTER WALLACE committed suicide on September 12, 2008, at the age of 46, it was inevitable that we’d eventually read a biography of his...
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what may seem most revolutionary about Barthes’s essay is what it takes for granted: that there are readers at all for literary fiction
Spiegelman has yet to recover from the trauma of his creation's success.