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Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam’s most recent novel is
Leave the World Behind
.
Fiction
October 18, 2021
Jonathan Franzen’s God
A multigenerational saga about a Midwestern family,
Crossroads
is like most of Franzen novels—with one exception: Every plotline leads to the big guy himself.
Rumaan Alam
Fiction
February 8, 2021
Can the Novel Document the Present in Real Time?
Ali Smith’s
Seasonal Quartet
is an experiment in novel writing that closely tracks and analyzes the news as it happens.
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Autobiography and Memoir
October 7, 2020
John Luther Adams’s Songs for a Vanished World
A conversation, conducted via satellite phone, with the legendary composer about his new memoir,
Silences So Deep
, and the music of his life.
Rumaan Alam
Culture
April 17, 2020
The Liberation of Fiona Apple
Her first album in eight years,
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
, is exquisite.
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Fiction
October 29, 2019
Zadie Smith’s Turn to Short Fiction
In her first short story collection, the novelist and essayist offers us both cautionary tales and experimental riffs.
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