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 Michael Ondaatje’s The Distance of a Shout (Poetry Magazine)
On Tatiana Tibuleac’s The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes (New York Times)
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)