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The Tragedy and Comedy of Don Quixote
Dali Mami, a renegado corsair who ruled as a pirate king in Algiers, where he was infamous for his household full of mutilated prisoners, was referred to as “The Lame” because of a leg injury sustained...
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Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation
“It is starting like this.” The opening line of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation is a ferocious one. A sentence of dread and anticipation, but also one of annunciation – the start of the story,...
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In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s The Odd...
Unnamed Press editors Brandon Taylor and Allison Smith’s just-launched imprint, Smith & Taylor Classicsc, was born from staff meeting conversations that kept leading back to a love of classic...
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I Could Have Been Harsher: Lauren Oyler on Judging and Being Judged
Even those who have been the focus of Lauren Oyler’s criticism have, at times, admitted the usefulness of a “truly scathing” review of their bullshit. Oyler rode the internet’s appetite for a...
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Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing
What does it mean to live in a nation determined to erase you? Or to be defined by the silence of such erasure? From a young age, I learned quickly, and intimately, all the ways one person could...
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Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer
In “Leopoldo (His Labors),” Augusto Monterroso tells the story of a man seen as a writer by everyone but who never finishes any of the stories he sets out to write. Leopoldo Ralón spends his days in...
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How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America
Even though Franz Kafka had been dead since 1924, his writing would provide Cold War-era writers and intellectuals in the United States with a literary vocabulary for imagining life behind the Iron...
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Diana Goetsch on How Elena Ferrante and Milan Kundera Helped Her Write a Memoir
In This Body I Wore, I’d set out to write a pre-transition literary memoir, which in my case meant capturing the lived reality of being trans and not knowing it, for fifty years. Capturing an...
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From Servant to Sidekick: The “Black Friend,” Then and Now
The Best Friend, period, is also known as the foil, the sidekick, the cheerleader, the supporting (and supportive) character. Sometimes, their presence is practically inconsequential to the driving...
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How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other
When I moved to California in 1996, I was following a horse. The horse’s name was Terson (I called him Mr. T). I bought him from a stable in Wisconsin in 1993, and kept him in a barn outside Ames,...
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“Every Border is a Story.” On Dividing Lines Both Real and Imagined
The oldest written story of a border dates back to 2,400 BC, carved in cuneiform into a half-meter-tall pillar of crystalline limestone. It tells of an argument between two cities over a stretch of...
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Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
In 1990, even before starting The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro had been working on a project called “The Students’ Novel,” about “these strange young people living in the countryside, calling themselves...
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What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss
Sometimes caregivers ask me what books might help them make sense of what they’re going through. Generally, they have in mind the various guidebooks that offer practical advice. I’m perfectly happy to...
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The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More
“Suppose there were a writing of the non-written. Someday it will come. A brief writing, without grammar, just words. A writing of words without the support of grammar. Wayward. Written here. And...
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Why Fig Pollination and Literary Criticism Have a Lot in Common
Here’s a weird thing about some kinds of figs: there are male and female figs. The fig is an inverted flower, which needs to be pollinated to make the fig fruit that we eat. There are male and female...
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On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission
“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.” –Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger * Unless otherwise noted, all quotes are from...
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The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2022
Way back in the mid-aughts when I first started writing about books, pitching a print publication was the only reliable way for book critics to get paid, and third-person point of view was all the...
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Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published
Poems, T. S. Eliot insisted, were not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. The mind that suffers and the mind that creates are two different species, and the authentic creative...
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