Category Archive: literature

Dog Days Classics: Digging Joan Didion in the Age of Feelings

In her review of 2015’s The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty’s biography of famed writer Joan Didion, Meghan […]

The Thing Called Information: Understanding Alienation in the Post-Industrial Economy

“Here, and shockingly few other places in this country, men are paid to increase knowledge, to work toward […]

Not All Humans Are Haters: A Response to Slate’s Rebecca Schuman

Editor’s Note: The author recently received his PhD in Comparative Literature.  Our bad for not updating his bio last […]

Journalists vs. Academia: The Case of William Deresiewicz and Lawrence Buell’s The Dream of the Great American Novel

Everybody seems to have a problem with academics these days.  We’ve known for a long time that the […]

Sloping toward the Future?: Generation X and Malaise in Richard Fulco’s There Is No End to This Slope

  “Hurt people hurt people,” the damaged Roger Greenberg tells a pre-Frances Ha Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach’s […]

Much Ado about Nothing: The Times’ Non-Story about Eduardo Galeano’s Non-Apology

Last Friday The New York Times published an article claiming that Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano now “disavows” his […]

Toni Margarita Plummer: Writing Her Way Home in The Bolero of Andi Rowe

With hardly any traffic, she was soon at the Santa Anita exit. She drove over the bridge bordered […]

Dog Days Classics: Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” […]