William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz (bill at thenation.com) is a Nation contributing writer. His A Jane Austen Education is out in paperback. He can be reached at www.billderesiewicz.com.

Articles

Dead Man (Fiction)

Philip Roth's Everyman is a contemporary morality play that explores the author's obsessions with health and virility, ecstasy and betrayal, and the certainty and solitude of death.

William Deresiewicz

Zadie Smith's Indecision (Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Fiction)

It can't be easy to rein in a writer as successful as Zadie Smith. Her new novel, On Beauty, proves it's almost impossible.

William Deresiewicz

It's a Man's, Man's World (Historical Books, Fiction)

Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men seems designed as a calculated assault on the reader.

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The Literary World System (Regions and Countries)

What are you doing? I mean, right now. You're reading a book review.

William Deresiewicz

The Business of Theory (Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Non-fiction)

The last decade or two have witnessed an insidious
shift in American culture, one that goes to the heart of the way we
talk about our society.