Adam Levin, profiled
Like the narrator of his new novel, The Instructions, Adam Levin “wanted to be the Jewish Messiah” as a kid. “I could beat up everyone in my grade,” he says. (Via.)
Like the narrator of his new novel, The Instructions, Adam Levin “wanted to be the Jewish Messiah” as a kid. “I could beat up everyone in my grade,” he says. (Via.)
Oscar Wilde may have forsworn a life as “a dried-up Oxford don,” but his classics training in tragedy, syllogism, and rhetorical style made itself felt in his writing, says Daniel Mendelsohn.
Elaine Showalter is surprised so few reviewers of Philip Roth’s Nemesis have mentioned that it’s “a brilliant and compassionate American re-imagining of Albert Camus’s The Plague.” (Via.)
Roland Barthes’ Mourning Diary collects the notes he wrote after his mother’s death. Dwight Garner says its “unvarnished quality is the source of its wrecking cumulative power.”