In Search of Futures Past
How Marcel Proust’s finances affected his writing.
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All posts tagged: books
Emmanuel Macron’s Grand Narrative
Three contemporary French authors illuminate the president’s divisive neoliberal agenda and how a diversionary ‘Europe under attack’ narrative might be the key to his success.
On the Necessity of Highbrowism
Why does highbrowism pose such a threat to authoritarianism? A profile of Adam Gopnik and his latest book.
Rethinking Fitzgerald’s Final Days
What I’d Die for You tells us about Fitzgerald’s troubled final years. And how he turned personal tragedy into his best work.
‘The Story of Memory’: A Conversation with Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on The Train and Into the Water, reflects on two unreliable things: narrators and memory.
France’s Unlikely Literary Rebel
Maylis de Kerangal’s “The Heart” combines the language of science, philosophy, and pop culture to create a novel that defies categorization—and frustrates certain literary élites.
You Can Do Anything if You Just Do it Slowly
The best-selling author Lauren Groff on artistic narcissism, Véra Nabokov, and her winding road to success.
