Still Loyal to the Sentence
The secret life of sentences
The secret life of sentences
Susan Scarf MerrellNov 25, 2013
"No author writing todaycan ignore the female reader."...
Alix OhlinFeb 7, 2013
THE SWEDISH PHILOSOPHER and literary scholar Martin Hägglund has swiftly established himself at the center of some of today’s most lively intellectual...
David WintersFeb 5, 2013
On recent translations of the Russian formalist's 'Bowstring' and 'Energy of Delusion'
Jonathan FoltzOct 24, 2012
TWENTY-SEVEN PAGES INTO The Eye (1965), Vladimir’s Nabokov’s narrator, hitherto a picture of sardonic indifference, suddenly goes all political on us...
Houman BarekatAug 4, 2012
This review, by Gore Vidal, of Norman Mailer’s Advertisements for Myself, was originally published in The Nation on January 2, 1960. Thanks to Jon...
Gore VidalAug 3, 2012
A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.
Dora ZhangJun 23, 2012
As any writer knows, our work is infused with ego.
Ander MonsonMar 20, 2012
The writer and editor, too, are headaches.
Lee GutkindMar 19, 2012
As far as most American poetry readers are concerned, “Down Under” might as well be synonymous with “Out of Sight, Out of Mind.”
Brian ReedFeb 22, 2012
It quickly became clear that he loved Sherlock Holmes and the entire Holmes canon as much as I did, though for different reasons.
Leslie S. KlingerFeb 16, 2012
On the posthumous work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Maggie NelsonJan 13, 2012
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony.
Renate StendhalDec 17, 2011
Insofar as poverty is the problem, Warren argues, history has nothing to do with the solution.
Walter Benn MichaelsJun 13, 2011