The familiar is a tease. Luke Kennard stands on the shoulders of a young Fyodor Dostoevsky.
To many in Gen Z, "The Things We Never Say" is unforgivably centrist. I found it politically audacious, but as art it’s not exactly "Middlemarch".
A concurrent reading of "Cranford" and "Scenes of Clerical Life"
Confidence as America’s Chief Export in Henry James and Barbara Kingsolver
An Open Letter to David Frum in Reply to His Botched "Romola" Review
or, Has Timothée Chalamet Even Heard of the Verse Novel?
"The Fortune of the Rougons" may not be science, but it triumphs as political satire
Grappling with irreconcilable tensions between "Emperor and Galilean"
Self-Revelation in the "Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov"
The Impossibility of Connection in "The Voyage Out"
Longform Literary Intersections
