Notable Articles
May 17, 2010
Long Live the Anti-Novel, Built from Scraps 65
by David Shields
The author of Reality Hunger explains it all for you: “When I began, I was just trying to follow the Kafka dictum ‘A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.’”
May 17, 2010
All Great Works of Literature Either Dissolve a Genre or Invent One: A Reading List 13
by David Shields
“A contemplation of Dyer, Markson, and Coetzee, three books that embody my aesthetic really, really well, plus many additional titles to explore.”
May 6, 2010
Confined By Pages: The Joy of Unread Books 48
by Kirsty Logan
I often find that the book I have read is somehow not as exciting as the book I had imagined reading.
April 29, 2010
Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray? 17
by Jacob Lambert
It’s now widely believed that Outbreak, the 1995 Dustin Hoffman Ebola thriller, was at least partially inspired by Caps For Sale.
April 20, 2010
Lionel Shriver: America’s Best Writer? 33
by Kevin Frazier
With her new novel, So Much for That, Lionel Shriver strengthens her already credible claim to the title of best living American writer. That’s okay. We were the same way with Faulkner and Poe. Nothing’s more American than not quite recognizing some of our most accomplished artists.
April 8, 2010
Every Day I Open a Book 10
by Philip Graham
Perhaps all those years of reading adventure stories had given me a vocabulary of action, a means to save my father’s life, as if I’d been preparing, through books, for those charged moments without knowing it.
