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Sidecar, the continually surprising + exciting blog / shorter-forms section / sidecar to the peerless
@NewLeftReview
– the Anglosphere's politico-historico-intellectual Rolls-Royce – has begun a donation / fund-raising drive, to which I've just contributed
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Here's my new
@bookforum
essay about J M Coetzee, his new novella The Pole and his relationship to letting loose, having /not having sex, showing emotion, being dull, representing reality, reading poetry, and writing (and speaking) in the English language
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What do people (literally, physically) do when they're reviewing a book? Takes notes in the margins, on a pad, at a laptop? And then what? I want detail–the more granular, banal, and weird the better. . .
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Here’s my somewhat lengthy
@NewLeftReview
essay about the stakes of contemporary political criticism — why we might want (or be forced) to interpret narratives, via the work of Fredric Jameson, Timothy Bewes, Rita Felski, postcritique and the ‘method wars’
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Awful to hear that Peter Schjeldahl has died. This fantastic
@newyorker
piece on Wallace Stevens shows him at his best in his one of less discussed roles, biography-minded critic of poetry
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My somewhat lengthy
@NewLeftReview
Sidecar reflections on the life, work and legacy of the Czech writer Milan Kundera, often wonderful novelist, reliably strident polemicist, with reference to figures he was and wasn’t like and who did and didn’t like him
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Here’s my
@NewStatesman
#longread
about
@TheAthleticUK
’s Michael Cox (
@Zonal_Marking
) and modern football analysis, featuring contributions from
@jonawils
,
@AFHStewart
,
@oilysailor
,
@Worville
,
@AliMaxwell_
(and with Graeme Souness as the villain):
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I edited a special free issue of
@critquarterly
on John Berger, with contributions from
@marina_warn
,
@LamornaAsh
, Ben Lerner,
@becbecliuliu
,
@joshua_craze
,
@henryhitchings
, Jonathan Nunn (
@demarionunn
),
@GeorgeProchnik
,
@henrymance
,
@sophiaelmhirst
et al
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The Line of Beauty came out from
@picadorbooks
20 years ago today. Won
@TheBookerPrizes
(then Man) in an insane year. Endlessly delicious, artful, heartbreaking novel. Kensington Pk Gdns looking pretty Hollinghursty when I passed earlier (one of these pics arguably a spoiler)
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I chatted to
@PulitzerPrizes
winning Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus (published by
@FitzcarraldoEds
and
@nyrbclassics
), the novel of ideas, Israel, Harold Bloom, political commitment, his influences and much besides in this
@SubstackInc
interview
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Here’s my Sidecar (
@NewLeftReview
) essay on the enormities of the American writer-director Wes Anderson and his tenth film The French Dispatch, with reference to Fredric Jameson, Pauline Kael, Godard, the Coen Brothers, and much else besides
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Here's my
@NewYorker
piece on the work of
@JoyceCarolOates
and her new novel Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars
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The South African novelist J M Coetzee, 2003 Nobel Prize winner, turns 82 today (and may or may not be having a mad one). Wrote terrific books in five successive decades, the Cliff Richard of modern lit. Here is my
@NewStatesman
piece on the most recent:
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Here's my
@NewLeftReview
(Sidecar) piece on "deconstruction," and the life and legacy of its greatest American practitioner and cheerleader J Hillis Miller (1928-2021),with appearances by Frye, Poulet, Bloom, Jameson, Derrida, de Man, Marx, Paglia, Johnson
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for the new(ish) April issue of
@Lit_Review
I commissioned a number of pieces, including Deborah Levy on Bowie, Rosa Lyster on creative non-fiction,
@JonSavage1966
on Pulp,
@mjohnharrison
on Oyamada,
@rwilliams1947
on Kind of Blue,
@chris_power
on HGarner
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For the
@LRB
I read the work of the novelist, story writer, & poet Percival Everett, author of Erasure and The Trees, and thought about names, mimesis, antiquity,
@blgtylr
,
@JoyceCarolOates
, Pynchon, Coetzee (neither on Twitter), the Richard Wright debate
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Here is my
@NewLeftReview
Sidecar piece about Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise, with thoughts on the director’s past work (The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha, et al), his sociological bent, and slight sentimentality 🦅
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For those non-Norwegian readers who asked for an English version of my recent, longish
@vinduet
reflection on the life and work but mainly work of the English novelist and critic Martin Amis (1949-2023), here it is, with some bonus material:
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my
@bookforum
piece about Coetzee, fun, sex, feelings, poetry, the "I" that isn't "I" and so on (via The Pole)
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Here’s my
@guardian
piece on Claire-Louise Bennett’s amazingly fresh and resonant new novel Checkout 19, a story of vocation and self-fashioning via loving Forster and laughing at Sillitoe and following a course beaten by Kavan, Ernaux, Quin, and Bachmann:
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Here’s my
@NewLeftReview
(Sidecar) piece on the representation of historical memory, touching on the trajectory of Pedro Almodovar, the centenary of Alain Resnais, the historiography of Henry Rousso, and the French and Spanish response to the fascist past
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18 years ago today, I attended a memorable debate about literary criticism with Frank Kermode (84), James Wood (38), Zadie Smith (28), and Terry Eagleton (61), chaired by Andrew O’Hagan. ZS talked about Barthes, FK about Northrop Frye. My FK autograph ageing well, like the work
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The Master's Margherita: here's my Sidecar (
@NewLeftReview
) essay on the great American writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson and his ninth film, Licorice Pizza, with ref. to Bertolucci, Baumbach, dairy (absent from LP), OPEC (sort of), masculinity (ditto)
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Here is my
@NewYorker
essay on the life and work of Anna Kavan, a fascinating English novelist and story writer who died in 1968
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Today is Muriel Spark's birthday, which she probably would have marked in an outwardly cheery but rather brisk manner. Here's my (2nd)
@NewStatesman
essay about her amazing work, 22 novels and many short stories, incl. The Ballad of PR and The Prime of MJB
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Here’s my
@LRB
slightly sceptical take on Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, shortlisted for the Booker, a conventional, at times heavy-handed novel from a writer who specialises in unusual comic forms
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For those who read criticism on the weekends —everyone really — here’s my
@NewStatesman
piece on Kazuo Ishiguro and Klara and the Sun and the concept of the “good” novel, with reference to Coetzee and others:
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My
@NewLeftReview
obituary essay about Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, who died in July, featuring Klima, Eagleton, Todorov,
@Madonna
,
@DUALIPA
, Sontag, Janet Malcolm,
@nickhornby
,
@jonathancoe
,
@fromTGA
, Brodsky, Bloom, Dyer…
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As it's a double issue of
@NewYorker
here again is my piece on the work of Joyce Carol Oates:
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Here's my longish interview (I largely get out of the way) with Professor Sir Christopher Ricks, w/ testimony from Helen Vendler, John Carey, Geoff Dyer, Wendy Lesser, James Wood, Keith Thomas, and Ricks's thoughts on Milton, Dylan, Bloom, Murdoch, Beckett
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Here's my
@newstatesman
interview with the short story writer and novelist George Saunders, 63 today whose
@SubstackInc
Story Club launches in an hour, in which he discussed revision, craft, and how to become a genius (h/t
@chris_power
for enlightenment)
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Here’s my
@bookforum
essay about the resurgence of British football (soccer) writing since ‘90, featuring
@PeteDavies2006
,
@KuperSimon
,
@nickhornby
,
@bill_buford
, Gazza,
@GaryLineker
, and the
@LRB
, h/t
@JackPittBrooke
and
@johnspacemuller
for their insight
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Here's my
@NewYorker
piece on John Williams, the Stoner phenomenon, anti-Romantic aesthetics, male repression, with stuff on Winters, Rahv, and Howe, and cameos from
@JoyceCarolOates
@BretEastonEllis
@nyrbclassics
and
@ecshowalter
:
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For the brand-new
@GrantaMag
podcast,
@_josiemitchell
and I chatted to the wonderful novelist and short story writer Brandon Taylor
@blgtylr
about the third person, Zola, “Sal-Roons”, and much, much more. Available here and “wherever you get your podcasts”
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My
@newleftreview
reflections on postcritique’s version of the character and limits of cultural criticism, via Fredric Jameson’s work as populariser of western Marxism and creator of a new hermeneutic, and the replies of Rita Felski, Timothy Bewes et al
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Here’s my
@NewStatesman
obituary tribute to the great journalist and essayist Janet Malcolm, author of In the Freud Archives, The Journalist and the Murderer, and The Silent Woman, who died on Wednesday aged 86:
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Here's my
@NewStatesman
piece on Joan Didion, reviewing her latest collection Let Me Tell You What I Mean and offering, in accordance with recent journalistic tradition (cf
@xlorentzen
in 2015 &
@nathanheller
in January), a "unified theory" of her work...
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Joan Didion, reporter, essayist, novelist, one of the most distinguished writers in the world, author of Play it as it Lawys and The Year of Magical Thinking, has died aged 87. I wrote this for the
@newstatesman
earlier in the year about her life and work
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What’s the best novel or short story about or dealing with music?
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I spent some time with the academic, biographer, editor and most prolific
@BBCInOurTime
literature guest Sir Jonathan Bate for
@NewStatesman
and we talked about Shakespeare, Romanticism, and other, loosely related topics
(h/t
@lola_seaton
!)
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Here's my
@newstatesman
piece on the amazing Kazuo Ishiguro and what we can (maybe) learn about his approach to fiction from his sad, strange, and challenging new novel–his first piece of published writing since his Nobel Prize lecture–Klara and the Sun:
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Hi guys, what are some stories and novels set in England written by non-English people (I’d probably count Muriel Spark)?
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Here's my
@NewStatesman
interview with the wonderful critic and writer John Carey, author of
@YaleBooks
's Little History of Poetry, featuring cameo appearances–as supporting characters or character witnesses–from a range of leading cultural figures:
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My Sidecar (
@NewLeftReview
) piece on the films of the American writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, who made Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, and now ... Licorice Pizza
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My
@newleftreview
(Sidecar) essay of sorts about the historical memory of fascism in France and Spain, via the late work of Pedro Almodovar and the early work of (centenarian) Alain Resnais, touching on Modiano, Cercas, BHL, Deleuze, Dennis Potter, Pétain
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Here’s my
@Lit_Review
piece on Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, which came out in the UK and US yesterday, and which I admired with reservations:
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Here's my
@NewStatesman
preview of 2021 fiction, featuring
@taffyakner
,
@rebeccawhatsun
,
@chris_power
,
@FdezMallo
,
@juliannepachico
,
@mmegannnolan
,
@BenMyers1
, plus Barker, Galchen, Franzen, Soyinka, Ishiguro, Riley, Cusk, Powers, McGregor, Strout. . .
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To mark the death of the director Jean-Luc Godard, I have assembled 91 (largely Anglophone) quotations on my
@SubstackInc
that broadly trace his career and provide a brisk sense of why he meant so much to filmgoers and fellow film-makers
#Godard
#JLG
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There's an astonishing amount to enjoy, think about, and lament in
@TomCrewe1
's
@lrb
essay about depictions of (male) homosexual characters in novels and stories from Jane Austen to
@GarthGreenwell
via Balzac, Tolstoy, Eça de Queiroz, + especially E.Zola
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Vladimir Nabokov would have turned 123 today. Here’s my not-new slightly ambivalent
@NewStatesman
essay, with reference to Wilson, McCarthy, Updike, M. Wood, Robbie-Grillet, and some extended thoughts on two fun English-language novels, Pale Fire and Ada:
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On my
@SubstackInc
, entitled Taproot, driven by passion, gratitude, and loathing of change, I have written an appreciation of my favourite podcast
@FootballCliches
, its format, style, strengths, and one of its departing panellists
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Wrote a piece about Aleksandar Hemon for the
@LRB
, his trajectory from deflective comic miniaturist to. . . something else, via his admiration for the great Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš and collaboration with the Chicagoan filmmakers Lilly and Lana Wachowski
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On this day 25 years ago
@putnam
brought out
@LeeChildReacher
’s debut Killing Floor. I just wrote this
@NewStatesman
feature about the evolution — incl. the late William Hurt — and legacy of Reacher (h/t
@drheathermartin
@andymartinink
@alanritchson
)
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My Sally Rooney piece (from
@Lit_Review
), which says that though beautiful world where are you
#bwway
is dysfunctional, she's got a harder life than Henry James and is braver than Virginia Woolf (makes perfect sense if you read every syllable, I promise)
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Today marks the centenary of the novelist Abe critic John Williams. I wrote about his book “Stoner”, its evolution, reception, and afterlife, as well as his other books, in this
@newyorker
essay, with reference to Bellow, Winters, Thom Gunn, Janet Lewis…
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I shall be judging
#ManBooker2018
along with
@KAnthonyAppiah
@valmcdermid
@Shaptonia
and Jacqueline Rose.
We are delighted to announce our
#ManBooker2018
judges are Chair
@KAnthonyAppiah
@valmcdermid
@leorobsonwriter
Jacqueline Rose and
@Shaptonia
. Read more here
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Here’s my
@NewStatesman
profile of the feminist historian, novelist, and memoirist Dame Marina Warner, author of Alone of All Her Sex, Monuments and Maidens, The Lost Father, From the Beast to the Blonde, and most recently Inventory of a Life Mislaid
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I wrote a
@newstatesman
piece about the career — not a word I use of writers but feels apposite here — of Ian McEwan who at 75 has been on his hyper-conscious trajectory for more than half a century (thanks to
@Will___lloyd
, anonymous cameo for
@jcljules
)
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Here is my
@Telegraph
review of the intriguing and vivid new Cormac McCarthy novel The Passenger, the first of a pair, about clever, depressed siblings, New Orleans and the Bomb. . .
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Here's my
@NewStatesman
piece about J M Coetzee's assault on realism and his shattering new novel "The Death of Jesus":
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from Booker piece "Adam Mars-Jones’s Box Hill, for example, about a submissive, possibly abusive, gay relationship, which opens with a leisurely description of an alfresco blowjob, was considered by one or two of the 2020 judges unsuitable for recommending to friends and family."
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Here’s my
@NewStatesman
interview with Colm Tóibín, author of The Magician among other books, and the winner of the 2021 David Cohen Prize for Literature, dealing with technique, poetry, emotion, Wexford, loving Thomas Mann, trolling Paul Auster...
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I’ve seen some reference to the tenth anniversary of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, at the time I co-wrote — with the peerless Ann Wroe — this obituary and account of his extraordinary career for
@TheEconomist
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Chatting to
@laurenoyler
about her new book No Judgement on March 6th
And on 6 Mar, Lauren Oyler, one of the rowdiest and sharpest literary critics around, will discuss her first collection of non-fiction NO JUDGEMENT, with
@leorobsonwriter
Book here:
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"The novel is whatever novelists are doing at a given time" – Delillo, basically telling Franzen to chill. Definitely something in those blue hardbacks crammed with essays etc where Woolf said there is no novel, only novels, or something to that effect.
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There's a new
@netflix
adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley (or the Ripliad), with Andrew Scott in the main role. A little while back I wrote a
@NewStatesman
piece about Patricia Highsmith's 'heroes' and sensibility
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Gustave Flaubert, novelist and short story writer, turns 200 tomorrow. He changed the writing of prose, though what he represented is up for debate. I wrote this a bit ago for
@NewStatesman
about the author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education
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Enjoyed speaking to Zack Fine and co
@OxonianReview
about literature, cultural journalism, editing, and the joyful/frantic 17 yrs in which I was regularly filing pieces for
@NewStatesman
@TheTLS
@Lit_Review
@bookforum
@NewLeftReview
(+
@WarwickBoar
!).
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Caught up with the great if occasionally divisive
@j_amesmarriott
, opinion-maker, semi-retired critic, and together we googled “how to take a selfie” — we discussed his face/head and I decided that “lantern-jawed” improved on an epithet used by one of our admired contemporaries
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The
@CritQuarterly
editorial group (of which I’m part) is looking for contributors to the revamped Reviews section — new books but also ‘revaluations’. Next issue is on the life, work, and legacy of Christopher Hitchens. DM me and/or Joe
@lifeisnotanovel
with ideas or for details
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I’m sure
@HadleyFreeman
is getting it in the neck for repeating some forgotten facts in the Allen-Farrow story. But I don’t understand why, in an age when we listen to all testimony of trauma and abuse, we are not allowed to listen to Moses and Soon-Yi:
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V proud to have this long piece on Wes Anderson and The French Dispatch on Sidecar, the blog of
@NewLeftReview
–the nonspecialist UK journal that has done most imho for appreciation of (esp. US) film directors. (RIP Peter Wollen, aka Lee Russell, 1938–2019)
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Always nice / weird to come across the edition of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist with my younger (seven-year-old?) self on the cover (this time via
@Pinterest
), w/ the
@Madonna
quote almost speech-bubbled (never read, doubt I'd use the word "doorstep" in the blurb if I did, though)
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For
@NewLeftReview
’s Sidecar I wrote about the American writer-director Noah Baumbach in relationship to Don DeLillo and White Noise, source of his new
@netflix
film, Adam Driver, Anthony Giddens and sociology, Rohmer, Adam Phillips, Conrad kind of
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Here's my
@NewStatesman
piece on Blake Bailey, touching on Philip Roth and his other subjects, the "compartmentalized" and "extenuating," the coverage by
@lmlauramarsh
&
@parul_sehgal
and of
@ruth_franklin
, his "selective memory" & distrust of appearances
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For
@nytimesbooks
, I wrote about the Argentine writer Daniel Guebel's largely joyous novel The Absolute, a continent-hopping, centuries-spanning saga or meta-saga about politics, theology, sex, and music. . .
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Here’s my
@NewStatesman
piece on Salman Rushdie - the Michael Corleone of non-fiction writing - and his repeated attempt in essays to have his cake and eat it and then question the existence of carbohydrates, with reference to Roth and Rorty, among others:
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Here's my
@NewYorker
review of Sarah Moss's–
@fsgbooks
–'Summerwater' (which appeared on the bestseller list in the UK) with–passing–reference to the Condition-of-England novel, form (incl. Sebald), Brexit fiction, and balancing the topical and existential:
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Here’s the
@CritQuarterly
special issue about John Berger, with essays about food, time, transcendence, the portrayal of women, Turner, Picasso (x2), and much much more, featuring
@LamornaAsh
,
@henrymance
,
@SophieElmhirst
,
@demarionunn
,
@marina_warn
et al
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Dame Iris Murdoch, the wonderful novelist, died on this day in 1999. I wrote this
@NewStatesman
piece about her character and reception, and the bulky later novels, incl A Word Child, The Sea, The Sea, and The Philosopher’s Pupil, that solved her quandary
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I spent some time with the historian, mythographer, novelist, and short story writer Marina Warner for
@NewStatesman
, she touched on identity politics, worldly success, her intellectual trajectory, and her recent memoir Inventory of a Life Mislaid:
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Terrific new novel, Babysitter, out by
@JoyceCarolOates
, from
@4thEstateBooks
in the UK (and just reviewed). I tried to size up the first 57 years of Oates's achievement as fiction writer and critic / essayist, in this pandemic-era
@NewYorker
piece
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Hi—can anyone recommend works of criticism or biography, academic / popular, or even fiction that really illuminated the evolution of a work of art (ideally literary) whether or not that was the main object of the exercise? Looking at
@mervatim
@_ryanruby_
@MortenHoiJensen
et al
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#hilarymantel
has announced the third instalment of the Cromwell
#wolfhall
series. Here's my somewhat lengthy piece from
@thenation
about Mantel, Penelope Fitzgerald, and the historicalness (possibly a word) of historical fiction:
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Here's my
@NewStatesman
piece on the life, work, and legacy of the novelist Patricia Highsmith, with ref to Coleridge, Caulfield, the Cat in the Hat, Arendt (chill, chill–it's just the 'banality of evil'), Freud, Zizek, Malkovich, Minghella, and James Bond
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Here's my longish
@prospect_uk
piece on the method and subtext of the The Free World, Louis Menand's survey of culture and ideas in what he calls the "Cold War" era – Warhol, Lévi-Strauss, Arendt, Sartre, Cage, Sontag, Kael, Lennon, Friedan, Greenberg. . .
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Great to see that
@nyrbclassics
has reissued 'Surviving,' a key book by the amazing English novelist Henry Green. I emphasised its importance and drew upon its contents–stories, manifestoes, memoirs, a Paris Review interview–in this
@NewYorker
essay:
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Here's my (expanded, updated, mopped-up) tribute to the great Jean-Luc Godard, who died yesterday aged 91, with quotations on his ideas, work, perceptions of others (Truffaut, Ridley Scott), perceptions of him (Kael, Hamrah, Sontag), and much much more
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Here’s my long
@NewStatesman
review of F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel “The Great Gatsby,” which its author thought was a candidate for the best novel written by an American, and which I admired for the most part:
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The late Hilary Mantel on her principles as a historical novelist, quoted in my
@SubstackInc
piece
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Very sorry to hear about Ian Jack. He was a rare thing, a great writer (
@thetimes
(Sunday) and
@LRB
etc), a superb editor (notably of
@GrantaMag
) and a lovely person. He was a great friend of my father David, who recalled him in this passage, now to be recast in the past tense
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Very sad to learn of the death of the great Hilary Mantel aged 70, here's my Taproot post on her avidly and specifically 'historical' fiction, reflecting on her resemblances to Spark and P. Fitzgerald and her relationship with
@TheHuntington
library
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Here's my longish
@newstatesman
interview (but I get out of the way) with Professor Sir Christopher Ricks, w/ testimony from Vendler, Carey, Dyer, Lesser, James Wood, Keith Thomas, and Ricks's thoughts on Milton, Dylan, Bloom, Beckett, and much, much more
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Here's my unpaywalled
@Lit_Review
piece on the American novelist Philip Roth (1933-2018) and his biographers Blake Bailey and Ira Nadel, with cameos from others, touching on his odd career, his poor health, his ineffective therapy, and his reputation:
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Here’s my
@NewStatesman
interview with Claire-Louise Bennett about her
@GoldsmithsPrize
shortlisted Checkout 19, some amazing observations in here (I think)
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The
@LibraryAmerica
is bringing out an edition of John Williams’s novels, Stoner, Butcher’s Crossing, and Augustus, edited by
@DAMendelsohnNYC
. I wrote about Williams’s evolution, influences, achievement, and afterlife for
@NewYorker
a little while ago
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Here's my
@GuardianBooks
piece on The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen's latest novel (
@FitzcarraldoEds
) about Bibi's academic father on a New York State university campure in 1960, which I admired and enjoyed enormously, and struggled with a bit at times as well:
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For the London-based monthly
@Lit_Review
, I asked
@James_Wham
— one of the most entertaining and intellectually inventive film critics around — to write a piece about Frank Herbert and Dune II. It’s excellent
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