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February 3, 2021
Jo Livingstone
What Is Kink?
A new collection of stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell explores the line between good taste and desire fulfilled.
December 17, 2020
Timothy Aubry
Nicole Krauss’s Difficult Men
Her new story collection poses thorny questions and defies her critics.
December 12, 2018
Helena Fitzgerald
Lucia Berlin’s Art of Retelling
How the writer’s stories and her memoir fashion a self from the same, revisited outlines
July 23, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Is A.M. Homes Tired of Being Nasty?
Her new short story collection is a departure from her early fiction, which explored the seamy underside of the American family.
June 5, 2018
Sarah Marshall
Why Lorrie Moore Writes
Her criticism collection, “See What Can Be Done,” tackles the pleasure—and the pain—of the life of the mind.
May 7, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Weird Fiction Is Alive
Decades apart, the stories of Robert Aickman and Rita Bullwinkel channel an eerie spirit.
December 12, 2017
Jo Livingstone
“Cat Person” and the New Universe of Literary Criticism
Why critics, journalists, and publishing houses are all failing to connect with online communities of readers
August 2, 2017
Bijan Stephen
The Grotesque Loveliness of
Sour Heart
Jenny Zhang's new story collection is an elegant and unconventional take on the immigrant story.
July 27, 2015
Benjamin Anastas
A Passion for the Void
Understanding Clarice Lispector’s strange and surreal fiction
October 2, 2012
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