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Marco Roth Tokens of Ruined MethodDoes literary studies have a future? n + 1 Published in Issue 29: Bottoms Up Publication date Fall 2017 Joseph North. Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History. Harvard University Press, 2017. Lucas Simões, White Lies. 2017, concrete, paper, and steel. 40.25 x 20.75 × 8.75”. Photo by Photo by Colin Doyle. Courtesy of the artist. ..

At the Firing Squad: The Radical Works of a Young DostoevskyBy Matthew James SeidelMM, posted at 6:00 am on May 3, 2017 10 1. At 28, Fyodor Dostoevsky was about to die. The nightmare started when the police burst into his apartment and dragged him away in the middle of the night, along with the rest of the Petrashevsky Circle. This was a group made up of artists and thinkers wh..

Ernest Hemingway's long-lost Los Angeles visit, 80 years ago this week File Photo / Los Angeles TimesErnest Hemingway left his typewriter behind when he visited Los Angeles in 1937.(File Photo / Los Angeles Times) David Kipen Lots happened in L.A. last night. Lives ended. Lives began. Couples fought, couples made up. A recently transplanted Manhattan-ite said, “All my friends..

The 13th-century revolution that made modern poetry possible Eric Weiskott Eric Weiskott is assistant professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (2016). He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. The Aeon 15 September, 2017 The Knight from the Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales. Courtesy Wi..

Orhan Pamuk: Sometimes, to teach a novel feels like a betrayal of literature Spencer Platt / Getty Images The author, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, is shown in an Oct. 12, 2006, photograph taken at Columbia University in New York City. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images) Orhan PamukThe Los Angeles TimesAugust 27, 2017 I teach comparative literature at Columbia University. At the star..

Literature & CultureTwo Paths for the Personal EssayMerve Emre Boston Review Aug 22, 2017 The personal essay is not dead, but has it traded politics for style? Too Much and Not the Mood Durga Chew-Bose FSG Originals, $15 (paper) Somebody with a Little Hammer Mary Gaitskill Penguin Random House, $25.95 (cloth) Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil Deborah ..

Jordan Andrew Carter Jane Austen Is EverythingAs beloved as Shakespeare, she shaped a vision of personal flourishing that still feels thoroughly modern. Nicholas Dames The Atlantic Aug. 2017 On the bicentenary of her death, Jane Austen is still everywhere, often where one least expects to find her. Most of her devotees will have their own story; mine occurred in a Manhattan co..

A Possible KeatsFleur Jaeggy The New York Review of Books July 24, 2017 Chris Buckland WrightWoodcut by John Buckland Wright from The Collected Sonnets of John Keats, 1930 In 1803, the guillotine was a common children’s toy. Children also had toy cannons that fired real gunpowder, and puzzles depicting the great battles of England. They went around chanting, “Victory or dea..

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Charlotte Brontë’s Teaching CareerHow the novelist’s work as a governess shaped her worldview—and her writing. By John Pfordresher Lapham's Tuesday, June 27, 2017 IMAGE: The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë) (detail), by Branwell Brontë, c. 1834. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Beginning life as a gove..