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A Story of His Own
Percival Everett’s James retells The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, showing a world hidden from Mark Twain’s white characters.
James
by Percival Everett
July 18, 2024 issue
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Michael Gorra is the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, among other books. He teaches at Smith. (July 2024)
A Story of His Own
Percival Everett’s James retells The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, showing a world hidden from Mark Twain’s white characters.
James
by Percival Everett
July 18, 2024 issue
Who Are These People?
In The Pole, J. M. Coetzee returns to the novelist's ethical and aesthetic imperative: to attempt to understand others for whom we may not, at first, feel much sympathy.
The Pole
by J.M. Coetzee
November 2, 2023 issue
Having the Last Word
The sketches in Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures are as close as she ever came to the autobiography she wouldn’t or couldn’t write.
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
by Janet Malcolm, with an introduction by Ian Frazier and an afterword by Anne Malcolm
March 9, 2023 issue
Language, Destroyer of Worlds
In what may be his final two novels, Cormac McCarthy has assembled a family chronicle out of fragments, one that has, for the first time in his oeuvre, characters with an interior life and a meaningful past.
The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris
by Cormac McCarthy
December 22, 2022 issue
Corrections of Taste
Terry Eagleton’s Critical Revolutionaries traces a shift in English studies in which close attention to language, rather than literary history, became the paradigm for criticism.
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
by Terry Eagleton
October 6, 2022 issue
Being Dickens
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s The Turning Point minutely conveys the texture of Charles Dickens’s daily life over the course of a year when he was at the peak of his powers.
The Turning Point: 1851—A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
April 21, 2022 issue
What Fear Feels Like
Paul Auster's biography of Stephen Crane captures the life of a writer who found his material in “extreme situations...matters of life and death: war, poverty, and physical danger.”
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
by Paul Auster
November 18, 2021 issue
Promise Miscarried
Christine Smallwood's The Life of the Mind is a campus novel equally obsessed with the life of the body and with the precariousness of academic life.
The Life of the Mind
by Christine Smallwood
May 27, 2021 issue
Philip’s Theater
Philip Roth drew and smudged and drew again the line between life and art, and with every book it became harder to distinguish between them.
Philip Roth: The Biography
by Blake Bailey
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
by Benjamin Taylor
Philip Roth: A Counterlife
by Ira Nadel
April 8, 2021 issue
The Sense of an Ending
On Don DeLillo's late style.
The Silence
by Don DeLillo
December 3, 2020 issue
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Sketches from Solitude
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories
edited by Anne Boyd Rioux
July 23, 2020 issue
Young Woman from the Provinces
Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work
Sontag: Her Life and Work
by Benjamin Moser
February 27, 2020 issue
A Heritage of Evil
Three books dealing with memory and historical witness
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
by Tony Horwitz
Remembering Emmett Till
by Dave Tell
November 7, 2019 issue
Southern Discomfort
Peter Taylor: Complete Stories, Vol. 1, 1938–1959
by Peter Taylor, edited by Ann Beattie
Peter Taylor: Complete Stories, Vol. 2, 1960–1992
by Peter Taylor, edited by Ann Beattie
March 22, 2018 issue
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