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Criticism as a Life Practice: A Conversation with Yxta Maya Murray

  • Christina Catherine Martinez
  • January 20, 2021
Yxta Maya Murray discusses her new novel, ART IS EVERTHING.
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Shonen Knife - Let's Knife | Sound Takes
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Sound Takes: Let’s Knife

  • Stephen Akey
  • September 24, 2015
Analysis fails before this mysterious amalgam of silliness and sublimity. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for songs with cat whiskers in them.
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The Alien Angel

  • Alex Norcia
  • February 12, 2015
In The Times Literary Supplement, Marjorie Perloff explores “the strange voice of Edgar Allan Poe,” invoking the criticism of Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot, and Jerome McGann, whose new book, The…
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The How and Why of Reading

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 24, 2014
Writing “in defense of reading” essays is an outmoded literary form. Leo Robson points out in an examination of a slew of new books that reading, unlike other pastimes such…
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What Is Already Living: Author, Autobiography and Fiction in the Age of Social Networking

  • Jeff Price
  • October 4, 2011
WRITE YOUR STORY reads the advertising placard for corporate octopus Citibank on display in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. The campaign’s thrust appears to be this: by spending money, being a consumer, one, in fact, indites a story on the face of the everyday.
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The Last Book I Loved: Bleak House

  • Justin Taylor
  • May 18, 2009
Bleak House is a magnificent book, surprising and delightful and heartbreaking and wild.
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Ari Messer: The Last Book I Loved, The Changing Light at Sandover

  • Ari Messer
  • April 10, 2009
I hate agreeing with Harold Bloom. But what can I say? I fall easily and oddly and often (if sceptically) into Bloom’s spells of (particular) historical illumination and (annoying) lucidity.
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