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As Long as You Both Shall Live
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall explores the various fictions a mother and son must tell themselves and each other when their visions of life diverge.
Anatomy of a Fall
a film directed by Justine Triet
April 18, 2024 issue
What’s Your Type?
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You and Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood play with the novel’s traditional concern with character types.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
March 7, 2024 issue
Making It Big
In Roald Dahl’s stories, cruelty begets cruelty, children grow large, adults grow small, and everyone is trapped in a fun house of dirty, depthless mirrors.
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected
by Matthew Dennison
December 22, 2022 issue
The Act of Persuasion
The drama of Elizabeth Hardwick's life emanated from an elemental restlessness and a desire for sovereignty over her intellect and emotion.
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
by Cathy Curtis
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
edited and with an introduction by Alex Andriesse
April 21, 2022 issue
The Meticulous One
Her novels cast a pitiless light on the relationship between patriarchy and fascism.
Malina
by Ingeborg Bachmann, with an introduction by Rachel Kushner, and translated from the German by Philip Boehm
The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann
by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated from the German and with an introduction by Peter Filkins
War Diary
by Ingeborg Bachmann, with letters from Jack Hamesh, edited and with an afterword by Hans Höller, and translated from the German by Mike Mitchell
Correspondence
by Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, edited and with commentaries by Bertrand Badiou, Hans Höller, Andrea Stoll, and Barbara Wiedemann, and translated from the German by Wieland Hoban
October 22, 2020 issue
Private Parts of Speech
On Gary Lutz and writing about sex
The Complete Gary Lutz
by Gary Lutz
March 26, 2020 issue
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