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Untitled, by Max Neumann
The Ravaging Nothing: On László Krasznahorkai (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

Satantango will devour you, you and everything you know.

Ben Ehrenreich
Kurt Vonnegut
'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

Kurt Vonnegut sought to fool us with his eyes wide open.

William Deresiewicz
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games (Activism, Fiction, Politics)

Sending debt peonage, poverty and freaky weather into the arena.

Rebecca Solnit
César Aira
Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

Marcela Valdes
Twins (1968), by Alighiero Boetti
Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti (Books and Ideas, Fiction, History, Books and the Arts)

Opposites collapse in the work of the Shaman-Showman of contemporary Italian art.

Barry Schwabsky
Gregor von Rezzori
A Child of Sleepwalkers: On Gregor von Rezzori (Fiction, History, Books and the Arts, World)

A novelist’s grim portrait of Central Europe between the wars.

Lorna Scott Fox
Everything Except Me: On Percival Everett (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

In Assumption a murder mystery becomes a lesson in how much we do not know.

Laila Lalami
Stephen King
You Can't Always Get What You Want: On Stephen King (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

In 11/22/63, Stephen King conveys the horrors of American exceptionalism.

Charles Taylor
An observatory built by Maharajah Jai Singh in Jaipur, India
Eels Über Alles: On Julio Cortázar (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.

Ben Ehrenreich
Alan Hollinghurst
Secret Paragraphs: On Alan Hollinghurst (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

The Stranger's Child traces the vanishing of same-sex love through suppression and then, paradoxically, acceptance and openness.

Maria Margaronis

Blogs

On Feminism and Sadomasochistic Sex
Dana Goldstein

Katie Roiphe's Newsweek cover story ignores the fact that in every century and decade, sadomasochistic erotica has broken into the mainstream.

April 16, 2012
Barry Eisler vs. Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn and Brad Thor

A former covert CIA operative turned novelist is fast emerging as one of the most important fiction writers in the military/covert ops/political thriller genre dominated by right-wing authors.

June 29, 2010