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CultureMay 4, 2011
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education
The exploitation of contingent labor, a shrinking middle class, administrative elephantiasis: the turmoil in academia is a microcosm of American society as a whole.
William Deresiewicz
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FictionNovember 23, 2010
The Whole Human Mess: On Saul Bellow
Drollery, mordancy, tenderness and soul talk: Saul Bellow's letters are a Saul Bellow novel!
William Deresiewicz
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FictionAugust 25, 2010
No Name or Too Many? On Javier Marías
In Javier Marías's trilogy Your Face Tomorrow, the self is composed of borrowed languages and an uncertain voice.
William Deresiewicz
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BiographyFebruary 11, 2010
The Renunciation Artist: On Leo Tolstoy
The axis of moral struggle, a stroke of salvation--these are the spiritual dimensions of Tolstoy's late fiction.
William Deresiewicz
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FictionOctober 14, 2009
Honey and Salt
Technology has made us capable of exterminating ourselves. In The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood wonders what might save us.
William Deresiewicz
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FictionSeptember 2, 2009
Aracataca and Sucre
Will narrowed on a single object and fixed in the face of adversity--such is the recurring story of Gabriel García Márquez's work and life.
William Deresiewicz
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June 24, 2009
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Literary CriticismMay 20, 2009
Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
If art is a product of the mind, and the mind a product of evolution, is art a product of evolution?
William Deresiewicz
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May 20, 2009
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FictionApril 22, 2009
When the Whip Comes Down: On Mary Gaitskill
With Don't Cry, a disabling self-consciousness has crept into Mary Gaitskill's fiction.
William Deresiewicz