Against Self-Reliance?
Should Emerson be ejected from the canon? Two professors say he writes like a crazy person and teaches students to do the same. Sonya Chung disagrees.
Should Emerson be ejected from the canon? Two professors say he writes like a crazy person and teaches students to do the same. Sonya Chung disagrees.
Aimee Bender really knows how to create a mood. A new story, “Faces,” appears in the current (print) Paris Review.
Mavis Gallant’s heroines “are the awkward, the hopeless, the immature, the ones on the outside of womanhood looking in.”
“Drawing now involves subtracting as much as adding.” John Berger on “The Company of Drawings” in the latest Harper’s. (Subscription req’d.)
David Ulin praises Owen Hill’s second Blackburn mystery, The Incredible Double, in a new review series at Jacket Copy.