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Wish List for More
Alice Gregory and Thomas Mallon request sequels in the New York Times Bookends column. After sifting through some recent, popular marriage novels like Fates and Furies and Gone Girl, Gregory…
A Tale of Two Siblings
For the New York Times’s Bookends column, Thomas Mallon and Leslie Jamison muse on the books that best capture the intricate and fraught relationships between siblings: That’s what I felt Faulkner…
Do Facts Matter?
For the New York Times, Ayana Mathis and Thomas Mallon explore whether or not fiction based on historical events has a “responsibility to the truth.” While Mallon discusses how to remain within “the…
Getting Write With Yourself
Do you need to be right with yourself in order to write best? Is it a matter of ego or an issue of the industry? Two views on the relevance…
“Friendly With” But “Never Very Close”
Reviewing Kevin M. Schultz’s Buckley and Mailer for the New Yorker, Thomas Mallon traces the relationship between the two famous writers and wits—what brought the men together, and what set…
Mario Vargas Llosa: Artist or Politician?
In advance of the release of Mario Vargas Llosa’s new book The Time of the Hero, Thomas Mallon investigates the relationship between the Noble Prize-winning author’s work and the political movements of…
Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow, Nobrow
Critics have been locked in debate over the Internet’s effect on cultural production and reception for as long as most millennials can remember, exclamations like “democratized content” and “death of…