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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
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Tag Archives: Zadie Smith
Literary Luminaries: Beards, Vaginas and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part II
In Part II of her two-part essay, Sam Mills ponders why female avant-garde novelists are not as celebrated as their male counterparts. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics
Tagged #ReadWomen, Alice Munro, Anna Kavan, beats, Burroughs, Homeland, Joanna Walsh, Jonathan franzen, Sheila Heti, The Quiddity of Will Self, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith
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The Boy Who Loved Books
“Seemingly trivial but secretly significant moments sustained me through a dark decade growing up under Margaret Thatcher,” writes Damian Barr, “in a coal-mining village near Glasgow that was destroyed by her policies, in a family that was torn apart.” Continue reading
The End of the End of Everything: Fiction’s Fretful Futures, Part IV
In Part IV, of his 4-part series, Sam Byers looks at why the novel is dying and just why and how technology might save it. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Idiopathy, Keith Ridgway, Tao Lin, Technology, the internet, the novel, Thomas Harris, Zadie Smith
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The End of the End of Everything: Fiction’s Fretful Futures, Part I
In this 4-part series, Sam Byers looks at why the novel is dying and just why and how technology might save it. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Idiopathy, Jonathan franzen, Nathan Jurgenson, Peter Hitchens, Technology, the internet, the novel, Zadie Smith
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The Pigeon on the Path of the Novel’s Two Paths and Zadie Smith’s “NW”
In which Jennifer Kabat takes on Zadie Smith’s Two Paths for the Novel and NW and engages in the fight between realism and the avant-garde. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Craig Taylor, Duchamp, Joseph O'Neill, Londoners, Netherland, NW, Remainder, Sam Byers, The New Museum Triennial, Tom McCarthy, Two Paths for the Novel, Zadie Smith
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Raw Book Reviews by the Restlessly Deceased: T.S. Eliot on Zadie Smith
During each installment of this regular and beloved feature, a new book is reviewed from beyond the grave by a restless author of yore. This week, T.S. Eliot sinks his teeth into NW. Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews by the Restlessly Deceased
Tagged ink, lazarus, NW, sea girls, trousers, TS. Elliot, Zadie Smith
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