Articles by Bill Morris
February 8, 2012
Hatchet Job Prize 0
Turns out Americans aren’t the only ones who adore snark. The novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones has won the first Hatchet Job prize from the British website Omnivore for his blistering takedown of Michael Cunningham’s latest novel, By Nightfall. Mars-Jones beat out Geoff Dyer’s slam of Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an [...]
January 11, 2012
Staff Pick: John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead 14
Every word I say or write about John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead turns instantly to mush. Yes, he’s that good.
January 4, 2012
Nihilists Have Feelings, Too: Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory 8
Michel Houellebecq may be a petty misanthrope and an average prose stylist, but he can also be drop-dead funny.
December 10, 2011
A Year in Reading: Bill Morris 0
This year I read a book that was so good it gave me that sick-sweet feeling of envy-awe when I finished the last page. Damn, I thought, I wish I’d written that!
November 21, 2011
Battle of the Heavyweights: Errol Morris vs. Susan Sontag 4
Book lovers love to watch two heavyweights slug it out. Bloodshed, though not necessary, is always welcome.
November 4, 2011
A Small Gallery of Literary Giants 20
Since I’m convinced that people tend to be more interesting once they’re dead, obituaries have always been my favorite part of the newspaper. So whenever a noteworthy writer died, I started drawing the picture that accompanied the obit, eventually adding drawings of noteworthy long-dead writers. Here, then, is a gallery of a few of those literary giants, along with brief explanations of what was going through my head as my pen was fashioning their heads.
