The role of the critic isn’t to summarize or repackage art, but to actively participate in a conversation about it.

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“The doom” is thankfully over. That’s the phrase New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann has used to describe the past two decades, a ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” a six-volume novel that deployed minutely detailed descriptions of the mundane (making ...

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The sparsely populated region, with its wild lochs, castles and follies is the perfect gothic setting ...

Novels by Emma Straub, Ben Lerner and TJ Klune; nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lena Dunham; a road trip history of ...

You could say it’s just a novel, so the implausibilities don’t matter, but the story is self-involved and contrived.

Agents and editors say market fit, timing and competition, not just quality, are key factors determining which manuscripts ...

Shteyngart’s article is the latest in The Atlantic’s series “The Writer’s Way,” in which journalists and novelists follow the ...

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