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Zona, Geoff Dyer’s extended meditation on Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, meanders through this complex film about avoiding a confrontation with our soul. …more
Ann Beattie’s collagist new novel, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, questions the inherent value of fiction. …more
Will the ironies that plague the demise of print never end? …more
Douglas Coupland’s new biography of Marshall McLuhan bends the rules of the medium—but what, exactly, is the message? …more
Elif Batuman offers a rogue’s gallery of Russian writers, scholars, and literary characters—the only oddball missing is herself. …more