March 2013
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What is the Business of Literature? by Richard Nash
One of Us: how humans have thought about animal consciousness by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Addicted Life of Thomas de Quincey by Colin Dickey
Chinua Achebe and the Damnation of Faint Praise by Aaron Bady
Related: Chinua Achebe: The Art of Fiction No. 139
How Things Fell Apart by Chinua Achebe (2012)
Fair’s Fair: An...
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Barbara Pym gets rediscovered — again by Laura Miller
The Art of the Sentence: On Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King by Matthew Specktor
Even Kickstarter’s Utopian Gift Economy Comes with Gifts and Fools by Chris Randle
Fitzgerald, Woolf, and JG Ballard: Five classic book reviews
A Strike and a Start: Founding the New York Review by Jason Epstein
The Subversive St....
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The Ghost Writes Back: On ghostwriting the Sweet Valley High series by Amy Boesky
Fiction: Something to Remember Me By by Saul Bellow
The Best Sitcom of the Past 30 Years, Round 1: Louie vs. Seinfeld by Carina Chocano
Overshareability by Rob Walker
Energy & Rue: On the modern essay from Frieze
Related: The New Essayists, or the Decline of a Form?: The essay as reality television by...
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“The less good earth”
by Alec Ash
This Chinese spring festival, I read Pearl Buck’s 1931 novel The Good Earth in the perfect location – the farmlands of Anhui where the book is set. (Read my LARB co-blogger Maura Cunningham’s take on the book here, and check back next week for more analysis.)
Wang Lung, the protagonist, is a farmer who survives famine to strike it rich, eventually moving out of his old home on the...
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The Before and After of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” by Maria Bustillos
Didion, Collins, Plath by Emily Witt
Detroit Fiction: On Rightsizing American Literature by Alexander Nazaryan
Why I Write for Free by Stephanie Lucianovic
Partial Magic in Pat the Bunny: Grappling with the horror of infinite mammal regression by Ed Park
The Ides of March by Cecil Castellucci...
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