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Painting by Reynier Llanes. "The Poet," 2021 (oil … The People Cheering for Humanity’s End
A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise.
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Misha Vyrtsev Who Gets to Claim Kafka?
A court battle between German and Israeli archives over his manuscripts raised literary, not just legal, questions.
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Zilu8 / Photo Melon / Shutterstock / Arsh … The Anguished Comedy of Helen DeWitt
The stories in Some Trick, just the writer’s third book in almost 20 years, spin out weird, unlikely conceits with rigor and glee.
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Kevin Lamarque / Retuers / The Atlantic Bill Clinton’s Novel Isn't a Thriller—It's a Fantasy
The President Is Missing, co-written with James Patterson, indulges in a familiar trope: the country's top executive as action hero.
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Tahreer Photography / Getty Does Honor Matter?
A new book argues it’s a virtue that can motivate people to struggle against injustice—but doesn't adequately consider the more pernicious ways it manifests in society.
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Richard Drew / AP Remembering Philip Roth, a Giant of American Literature
The writer, who died at the age of 85, was the last of the larger-than-life novelists of the mid-20th century.
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Leah Walker / Sarah Lee / Arsh Raziuddin … The Art of Parenthood
New books by Sheila Heti and Michael Chabon explore the claims of family-making, and of writing.
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Fernando Vergara / AP Readers Don't Need the Nobel Prize in Literature
The cancellation of the 2018 award is an opportunity to remember that great works of writing aren’t decided by committee.
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Jaguar Land Rover / Getty Asymmetry: A Mentorship Tale, With Surprises
Lisa Halliday’s new book inventively tackles a familiar storyline, encouraging real-world identifications in order to subvert them.
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Alastair Grant / AP A Perfectly Postmodern White House Book
What makes Fire and Fury important is that it is not just about Trump, but a product of the same culture that produced Trump.
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Danny Schwartz A Poet for the Age of Brexit
Revisiting the work of A. E. Housman
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Kevin Van Aelst Why (Some) People Hate Poetry
It’s the site and source of disappointed hope.
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AS400 DB / Corbis The Patron Saint of Inner Lives
Wallace Stevens answered ultimate questions in language no one had used before.
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Patrick Leger Such a Nice Monster
Adam Thirlwell, a virtuosic young British novelist, indicts the morals of a pampered generation.
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