From the monthly archives:
November 2009
The memoir genre has taken plenty of hits from moralists, fact checkers and freelance scolds in the 13 years since “Angela’s Ashes” sold four million
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Gossip is how we establish cultural norms. Talking about others is our way to test the social boundaries — to learn what raises eyebrows, what
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It is particularly ironic that the critics have hurled all the conventional accusations at Miller, since his version of evolutionary psychology is so different from
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It’s not that Vollmann ultimately fails to get his point across. A reader can’t spend that much time with him without absorbing the bigger picture
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The vast majority of students we work with read newspapers and books, more so than I did at their age. And I don’t see that
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Never mind recession-lightened wallets. James Wolcott of Vanity Fair is more concerned about what technology is doing to conspicuous cultural consumption, as literature, music and
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Writers who drink are old hat. But what about writers who quit drinking? Tom Shone has been studying them for his new novel …
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