Waiting for Fascism
In his first novel, The Spider’s Web, the Austrian writer…
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My deepest embarrassment about the whole subway-coffeeshop fantasy stems from the idea that I ever wanted my reading to fulfill someone else’s desire.
On the Hatred of LiteratureThe hatred of literature, though it remains almost unheard of among the general reading public, has become the default mode in the upper reaches of our literary culture.
Let Them MisunderstandWatching Ninagawa in college, I had a single wish: that someone would clap and it would all suddenly be clear to me: the characters I transform into, what I transform from, who I am performing for.
Real CharactersIn the very act of presenting us with intensely alive, intensely real characters, the new existential novels invite us to move past the ubiquitous skepticism generated by the fakery of the contemporary world.
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