Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
August 25, 2010
Looking for Mr. Goodreads 0
TNR’s Ruth Franklin test-drives a new online dating service that “purports to match people based on their taste in literature.” Spoiler alert: Sebald lovers appear to be out of luck.
August 24, 2010
Tough Love: A Review of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom 6
With 2001’s The Corrections, Franzen would seem to have perfected his maximalist method. What might it mean to say that his new novel, Freedom, finds him maturing?
August 22, 2010
A DeLillo Retrospective 1
In its recently released third issue, The Point - a terrific Chicago-based journal of ideas – takes up the vexed question of Don DeLillo’s literary significance.
August 6, 2010
NPR Reviews the New Franzen 2
Alan Cheuse’s review of Jonathan Franzen’s much-anticipated new novel, Freedom, appeared on All Things Considered yesterday…and begs the question of what kind of compassion we look for in novels.
August 6, 2010
Kanye West, Featuring Eustace Tilley 1
Kanye’s Twitter feed meets the New Yorker caption contest: brilliant.
