Recent Articles
August 31, 2010
Adventures in Reviewing Elif Batuman’s The Possessed 4
by Ujala Sehgal
Far be it for me to skive off my part in what was now clearly a swiftly escalating literary collaboration. “You drive a hard bargain, Batuman,” I muttered to myself.
August 30, 2010
Pynchon Defends McEwan 0
by Ujala Sehgal
Letters of Note posts Thomas Pynchon’s letter to his British publisher defending Ian McEwan from plagiarism accusations regarding Atonement.
August 30, 2010
Edgar Allen Poe’s House on The Wire 0
by Ujala Sehgal
At Tin House, an excerpt from A.N. Devers’ essay on pilgrimages to the homes of impoverished writers, including references to Edgar Allen Poe’s Baltimore house on The Wire.
August 30, 2010
Who Would Want to Buy a Printed Book? 0
by Ujala Sehgal
The Boston Globe interviews Andrew Pettegree, author of The Book in the Renaissance, on how no one had any idea how to sell the first printed books. (via Book Bench)
August 30, 2010
Panache to Burn: Christopher Hitchens’ Hitch-22 2
by Matt Hanson
Though we have just now learned that Hitch is dying, delving into his memoir many things are apparent, not the least of which the fact that the man has done some living. If anyone has the right to consider his time not wasted, it’s him.
August 30, 2010
The Great Gatsby Revisited 12
by Sonya Chung
What struck me most is how The Great Gatsby as a “literary treasure,” as something we refer to as a classic, is so much less than what the novel actually is – which is something both gorgeously and impeccably wrought.
