June 5, 2020
Departures and Returns
It is, at once, 1933 and 1968 and 2020
No genre is more masculine than the spy story, more impervious to revisionary feminist versions.
Coming in from the Cold
Let’s face it: there’s nothing cool about someone else’s sentimentality.
Seventies Throwback Fiction
Theory might be most interesting not when it changes the form of fiction, but when it becomes an uneasy part of fiction’s content.
The Theory Generation
What if a certain neurotic investment is really the source of the best intellectual work?
Why Bother?
August 11, 2010
For intellectuals to stake a claim on such things as “attention” or “concentration” is an abdication of our best ground.
This Will Kill That
To admit to a fondness for, say, the Climax Blues Band is embarrassing in a more complicated way than it would at first seem.
