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William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz is the author of The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.
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    Human History Gets a Rewrite

    A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change.

    • William Deresiewicz
    • November 2021 Issue
  • Karolis Strautniekas

    J. M. Coetzee’s Unsettling Trilogy About a Possibly Divine Boy

    The novelist asks how we recognize the truth when it enters the world.

    • William Deresiewicz
    • June 2020 Issue
  • Javier Jaén

    In Defense of Facts

    A new history of the essay gets the genre all wrong, and in the process endorses a misleading idea of knowledge.

    • William Deresiewicz
    • January/February 2017 Issue
  • Emmanuel Polanco

    Where Have You Gone, Annie Dillard?

    Why the author has become so much less prolific over the past 17 years

    • William Deresiewicz
    • March 2016 Issue
  • Grafilu

    Why Primo Levi Survives

    His will to bear witness, and record the hellish particularity of the Holocaust, helped save his life in Auschwitz. It also inspired the writing he will be remembered for.

    • William Deresiewicz
    • December 2015 Issue
  • Javier Jaén

    The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur

    Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it?

    • William Deresiewicz
    • January/February 2015 Issue
  • How the Novel Made the Modern World

    And how the modern world unmade the novel

    • William Deresiewicz
    • June 2014 Issue
  • Yivo Institute

    The Jewish Mark Twain

    The writer who inspired Fiddler on the Roof shouldn’t be mistaken for a mere spinner of artless folktales. 

    • William Deresiewicz
    • January/February 2014 Issue
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