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December 5, 2024
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As I Lay Dying
Across thousands of pages, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Morning Star series presents a relentless excess of its characters’ inner lives; at its best, it poses troubling questions about the scope of human knowledge.
November 7, 2024 issue
Playing for Time
‘A Woman Who Wins’
The Father-Daughter Dance
October 17, 2024 issue
Speaking the Unspeakable
The Fact Man
At the heart of Daniel Defoe’s fictional world is a feeling for change, of the mutability and shiftiness of modern life and the people who thrive in it.
‘Deviations and Catastrophes’
The characters in Kathleen Alcott’s stories struggle with whether to let their attachment to the past derail them in the present.
‘The Death of Some Ideal’
The Irish novelist Anne Enright writes with great prowess and wit about women who make a virtue of getting on with things.
John le Carré (1931–2020)
Back from the Cold
November 23, 2017 issue
Which John le Carré?
October 13, 2016 issue
The Deadly Art of Double Deception
May 7, 2015 issue
Double-Cross in the Congo
April 12, 2007 issue
The Devil’s Playground
July 19, 2001 issue
May 20, 1999 issue
Milan Kundera (1929–2023)
The Czech Wager
January 22, 1981 issue
The Tragedy of Central Europe
April 26, 1984 issue
The Novel and Europe
July 19, 1984 issue
‘Man Thinks, God Laughs’
June 13, 1985 issue
The Umbrella, the Night World, and the Lonely Moon
December 19, 1991 issue
You’re Not in Your Own House Here, My Dear Fellow
September 21, 1995 issue
The Killing Spree
December 5, 2024 issue
In Search of Fullness
In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.
Alice Munro’s Retreat
In the years after she chose to stay with her husband despite learning that he had abused her daughter Andrea, Alice Munro’s stories came to reveal more than she might have known.
Pie-Dish Beetle Pursues Longer Life
November 21, 2024 issue
Toward a New Realism
Rachel Cusk’s latest experiment with the novel seems too influenced by a style of abstraction she deployed more successfully in her Outline trilogy.
‘The Kingdom of Ends’
Though he began writing near the end of the twentieth century, the poet Reginald Shepherd remained an unapologetic modernist who believed firmly in the autonomy of art.
A Mind Cast Out
The New Zealand writer Janet Frame insisted on the distinction between her fiction and her autobiography, yet it was the fiction that crystallized her own isolation in psychiatric wards.
Hawthorne’s Mood Swings
Just as he was given to periods of melancholy and cheer, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories offer a constant back-and-forth between light and dark, town and wilderness, loneliness and society.
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