A comparison of my Booker Prize favorite, Douglas Stuart’s "John of John" to E.M. Forster’s "The Longest Journey" shows its worthiness
To love Marlon James’s exuberantly queer voice is the start of a lifelong romance
Rebecca Perry and John Updike share memories of reviled administrations
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".
Plus: Why M. John Harrison’s shortlisted novel reminded me of Douglas Adams
Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver, who shared the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, are back this week with new novels.
Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver, who shared the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, are back in the ring this week with new novels. NEXT WEEK, Septimus Carr will provide the play-by-play.
A concurrent reading of "Cranford" and "Scenes of Clerical Life"
Michelle de Kretser Looks for New Forms But Elif Batuman Has Already Been There
A Supplement to "Ishiguro & Murakami Float Ideas on the River of Metaphor"
Analyzing "An Artist of the Floating of the Floating World" on Haruki Murakami's Terms and "Killing Commendatore" on Kazuo Ishiguro's Terms
Confidence as America’s Chief Export in Henry James and Barbara Kingsolver
What Nick Hornby and Michael Frayn Taught Me About the Artistic Life
Alexander Chee’s "The Queen of the Night" Channels the Grand Silliness of Opera
"God Help the Child" as Unofficial Sequel to "The Bluest Eye"
Haruki Murakami at the Height of His Powers
Does Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Let a Transgender Colonialist Off the Hook?
Edition Anxiety and Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
A.S. Byatt Dramatizes the Tantalizing Drudgery of Research
"What We Can Know" Is a Damning Tell-all Biography of Our Reckless Generation
Literary Genius or Snake Oil Salesman?
Longform Literary Intersections
