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A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories Tim Parks The New York Review of Books May 25, 2020, 7:00 am Anton Chekhov in Yalta, 1900; Charles Dickens at Antoine Francois Jean Claudet’s London studio, circa 1852 Why do we categorize novels? Fantasy, Chick Lit, Crime, Romance, Literary, Gothic, Feminist… Is it the better to find what we want, on the carefully labelled shelves of our bookshops?..

What Happened to the Novel?The novel is declining, and high culture with it by Joseph Epstein Commentary, May 2020 issue Forty or so years ago, if you let slip in conversation that you didn’t know who Mark Rothko or Elizabeth Bishop were, I would have had to conclude that your conception of yourself as a cultured person was sadly mistaken. Yet today if I asked you who Molly ..

Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate Credit...Joan WongBy Laura Marris New York Times April 16, 2020 Toward the end of January, I began to notice a strange echo between my work and the news. A mysterious virus had appeared in the city of Wuhan, and though the virus resembled previous diseases, there was something novel about it. But I’m not a doctor, an epidemiologist or a pub..

T. S. Eliot’s animus by Adam KirschThe New CriterionFeatures April 2020 On T. S. Eliot and the role of the poet-critic. When I was beginning my career as a writer in the late 1990s, I met an older literary critic who talked about “crushing” people with his negative reviews. He said it ironically, but still with a certain infectious glee—knowing it was exactly the kind ..

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<iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-KJN5PXJ" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe> Arts in SocietyEmily Dickinson Escapes Until recent decades, Dickinson was most often depicted as a sentimental spinster or reclusive eccentric. A new biography and TV show reveal instead a self-aware artist who created a life ..

Fan Fiction Was Just as Sexual in the 1700s as It Is Today Before tales about Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter, people wrote bawdy or gross stories about Gulliver’s Travels. Shannon Chamberlain The AtlanticFebruary 14, 2020 Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in 1726 marked the beginning of the modern fan-fiction movement.Culture Club / Getty Once upon a time, writing and s..

Books The way we read now The thrill is gone for lovers of fiction. Joseph Bottum on the strange death of the novelJoseph Bottum The Spectator USA February 11, 2020 Almost touching the bottom?: Salman Rushdie and actress Olivia Wilde at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, 2008 For almost 300 years, the novel was a major art form, perhaps the major art form, of the modern wo..

Hemingway - Alan Humm His body is a verb, beard blossoming like a taunt, deliriously, on his face. Such frail construction: how a fish, as iridescent as a rainbow, and a blunt cigar, a genuflecting bull, are all supposed to mean the things you are; how just one adjective, like dye in water, can alter everything.

SHARE Real Characters Literary criticism and the existential turn by Toril Moi The Point Issue 21 | Criticism | January 28, 2020 For generations, literature students have been told never to treat characters as if they were real people. Academic literary theory is replete with warnings against committing this cardinal sin. We must not ask how many children Lady Macbeth had. We m..