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Jonathan Russell Clark

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Jonathan Russell Clark is a contributing editor at Literary Hub and a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and Read It Forward. His work has also appeared in Tin House, the Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Millions, Rolling Stone, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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An Elaborately Constructed Artifice: Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • October 27, 2021
Slipstream may as well be what we call our bewilderment.
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An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • November 28, 2016
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope today in Rumpus Books.
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Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • April 27, 2015
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews Satin Island by Tom McCarthy today in Rumpus Books.
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How to Be Both by Ali Smith

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • January 13, 2015
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews How to Be Both by Ali Smith today in Rumpus Books.
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Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays by Tony Hoagland

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • December 4, 2014
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays by Tony Hoagland today in Rumpus Books.
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • September 22, 2014
Murakami's depiction of the murdered female sex object at the center of his new novel is not only sexist and irresponsible. It's also lazy writing.
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Still Writing by Dani Shapiro and Why I Read by Wendy Lesser

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • May 8, 2014
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews STILL WRITING by Dani Shapiro and WHY I READ by Wendy Lesser today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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