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John Updike, Letter Writer
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (816+ words) The life and letters of John Updike A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid...Pennington, a young woman of superior character who has assured him that, young as they are, together they can...responsible married life, Updike writes…...
Has Contemporary Fiction Ignored the Working Class?
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (239+ words) When his wife, Sylvie, worries about the occupational hazards of his job—“You can’t keep going up in...Books & the Arts / Zoe Adams His films show how a regime’s wrongdoing can upend one’s sense of self and...
Natan Last
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (128+ words) the Crossword Puzzle The Hidden Politics of the Crossword Puzzle Take it from me: A crossword clue can...
The Enigma of Gertrude Stein
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (269+ words) historical novel, a strange biography of a 16th-century duke, leaves the reader wondering if human nature can...
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (353+ words) data centers are causing water and electricity shortages, we have a duty as journalists to do all we can...
Zadie Smith: "I Say What I See"
10+ mon, 6+ day ago (792+ words) A conversation with the acclaimed author about her new essay collection, Dead and Alive. I spoke with Smith about her new collection in early October. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. EB: This year marks the 25th anniversary…...
Thomas Mallon’s Theory of the Diary
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (473+ words) The New York writer and editor’s diaries of the AIDS era presents a curious case of what we are supposed to expect from private documents that become historical sources. “Every day people walk down Fifth Avenue past dozens and dozens…...
Muriel Spark’s Magnetic Pull
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (791+ words) Muriel Spark’s art of compression What made the Scottish novelist’s antic novels so appealing? Spark’s kill count is often taken as proof of authorial sadism. (The technique of assassination-by-lightning is lifted straight from the Marquis de Sade’s novel Justine.) “I…...