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The Story Behind the Story

  • Roxie Pell
  • March 22, 2016
At this stoplight, you might begin to think, “I’ve been here before, there is nothing new to notice.” But it seems to me that we actually live here, and we…
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Wires Crossed

  • Roxie Pell
  • March 1, 2016
By this point, the relationship between books and television is complicated enough to merit its own Netflix series. Or its own book. Or maybe both: Like lovers who share an…
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Eating at the Table of Another

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 9, 2016
The critic giveth and he taketh away. In his review of Better Living Through Criticism, Jonathon Sturgeon counters A.O. Scott’s aversion to the idea of the critic as parasite: Maybe…
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All Mixed Up

  • Roxie Pell
  • November 24, 2015
Is The Hunger Games feminist? Does it matter? Flavorwire’s Sarah Seltzer wonders whether we’re asking the wrong questions: It seduces us with a good-vs.-evil premise, but then muddies the entire…
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The Whiteness of Literary Landmarks

  • Mary Allen
  • October 8, 2015
From Alice Walker: Standing there knocking on Flannery O’Connor’s door, I do not think of her illness; her magnificent work in spite of it; I think: It all comes back…
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Too Much of a Good Thing

  • Roxie Pell
  • September 1, 2015
If you like some of the things, why not read all of the things? Flavorwire’s Sarah Seltzer wonders why fans lose steam as we near the completist finish line: Maybe…
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Let It Go

  • Roxie Pell
  • July 28, 2015
No one is forcing you to finish True Detective: …sometimes it’s OK not to “wait for the payoff.” Sometimes we just don’t like something, and we know that early on.
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Gender Bias in Book Awards

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 3, 2015
Women are winning fewer book prizes than men. And narratives about women don’t fair as well when it comes to prestigious prizes either. In fact, looking at the data, the most…
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Trigger Warnings for Teachers, Too

  • P.E. Garcia
  • May 29, 2015
It sucks to read through an essay and just abruptly read a student’s usage of rape as an analogy for, like, soccer. For Flavorwire, Sarah Seltzer discusses the importance of…
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Where We’ve Been

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 19, 2015
It’s hard to enjoy reading Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time when the stack of books on your bedside table keeps reminding you of all the cultural capital you…
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It’s Time to Rethink Everything

  • Alex Norcia
  • May 7, 2015
At Flavorwire, Jonathon Sturgeon presents an excerpt of Tim Parks’s new book, Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books. In the excerpted section, Parks questions the simple idea of…
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The Joy of Knausgaard

  • Jake Slovis
  • April 27, 2015
For Flavorwire, Jonathon Sturgeon works to define “contemporary” literature and wonders where Karl Knausgaard’s My Struggle fits into the mix. What he ultimately argues is that contemporary literature is often “project based,” and that…
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