literature

Tom Stoppard’s Radical Invitation | The New Yorker

Tom Stoppard’s Radical Invitation | The New Yorker

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, his 1966 Shakespearean metatheatrical puzzle about tertiary characters struggling with their inexorable fates, became a ...

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon

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In the 1930s and 1940s, young book critics gathered outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the magazine's literary editor. New ...

László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality

László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality

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In 2011 I wrote that reading László Krasznahorkay “is a bit like seeing a group of people standing in a ...