work I want you to read
Essays
By Its Bad Side: On Bruce Robbins and the Literary History of Atrocity (3:AM)
A Surrealist Classic Shows Us the Uncanny in Everyday Paris (New York Times)
Albert Camus: Rebuilding France from America (France-Amérique Magazine)
The Day Samuel Beckett Became a French Writer (France-Amérique Magazine)
Susan Sontag: How Paris Shaped an American Luminary (France-Amérique Magazine)
Lighted Windows in Lockdown: The Visible and Invisible Lives of Others (The Yale Review)
Petty King of the High Country: On Jean Giono (The Review of Uncontemporary Fiction)
Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? (New York Times)
Conversations With Friends, an Interview with Sally Rooney (Politics/Letters)
Dr. Peterson’s Snake Oil: Nothing New Under the Sun (Politics/Letters)
Reviews
On Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Most Secret Memory of Men (New York Times)
Forest of Images: On Claude Simon’s The Flanders Road (Sidecar—New Left Review)
Wisdom Accumulates: On Halldór Laxness’s Salka Valka (Sidecar—New Left Review)
Shells and Spheres of the Self: On Marilynne Robinson’s “Jack” (LARB)
“The Sins of the Father,” on Jami Attenberg’s All This Could Be Yours (The Guardian)
Also About Birds: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Colum McCann’s “Apeirogon” (LARB)
Small Comforts and Brief Glimpses of Beauty: On Etgar Keret’s “Fly Already” (LARB)
Futuristic Technology of an Alternate Past: Ian McEwan’s “Machines Like Me” (LARB)
Whose Struggle? Karl Ove Knausgaard is No Longer a Writer (Politics/Letters)