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Valerie Stivers

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Valerie Stivers, a former Compact columnist, cooks from literature for Our Sunday Visitor.

May 2, 2025

The Great American Novel Will Not Be Substacked

Valerie Stivers
The Great American Novel Will Not Be Substacked
Apr 3, 2025

Ross Douthat’s Serious Fantasy

Valerie Stivers
Ross Douthat’s Serious Fantasy
Feb 18, 2025

Sophie Lewis’s Case Against Feminism

Valerie Stivers
Sophie Lewis’s Case Against Feminism
Feb 12, 2025

From Mishima to Mangione

Valerie Stivers
From Mishima to Mangione
Dec 5, 2024

The Novels That Made Us

Valerie Stivers
The Novels That Made Us
Nov 13, 2024

Love in the Time of Menopause

Valerie Stivers
Love in the Time of Menopause
Sep 24, 2024

Sally Rooney’s Crypto-Christian Love

Valerie Stivers
Sally Rooney’s Crypto-Christian Love
Sep 4, 2024

The First Great Covid Novel

Valerie Stivers
The First Great Covid Novel
Jul 31, 2024

Joy Williams’s Beautiful Apocalypse

Valerie Stivers
Joy Williams’s Beautiful Apocalypse
Jun 19, 2024

Rachel Cusk’s Cruel Misandry

Valerie Stivers
Rachel Cusk’s Cruel Misandry
May 15, 2024

Honor Levy’s Half-Brilliant Adderall Prose

Valerie Stivers
Honor Levy’s Half-Brilliant Adderall Prose
Apr 18, 2024

Art-Making in a Disenchanted Age

Valerie Stivers
Art-Making in a Disenchanted Age
Mar 12, 2024

Beyond the Victimhood Grift

Valerie Stivers
Beyond the Victimhood Grift
Feb 20, 2024

Why Tolstoy Didn’t Want You to Have Sex

Valerie Stivers
Why Tolstoy Didn’t Want You to Have Sex
Jan 23, 2024

The Perils of Dissident Literature

Valerie Stivers
The Perils of Dissident Literature
Dec 5, 2023

Literature at the End of the World

Valerie Stivers
Literature at the End of the World
Nov 7, 2023

Sigrid Nunez’s Lockdown Literature

Valerie Stivers
Sigrid Nunez’s Lockdown Literature
Oct 25, 2023

‘Cat Person’ as Viral Fairy Tale

Valerie Stivers
‘Cat Person’ as Viral Fairy Tale
Sep 27, 2023

Emily Wilson’s Sack of Homer

Valerie Stivers
Emily Wilson’s Sack of Homer
Aug 31, 2023

A Master Novelist Visits Hell

Valerie Stivers
A Master Novelist Visits Hell
Jun 29, 2023

Bach Was No Liberal Humanist

Valerie Stivers
Bach Was No Liberal Humanist
May 9, 2023

Unguarded Angel

Valerie Stivers
Unguarded Angel
Apr 18, 2023

The Anti-Humanism of Han Kang

Valerie Stivers
The Anti-Humanism of Han Kang
Mar 20, 2023

The Wages of Mother-Work

Valerie Stivers
The Wages of Mother-Work
Feb 28, 2023

Social-Justice Satanism

Valerie Stivers
Social-Justice Satanism
Jan 17, 2023

American Non-Psycho

Valerie Stivers
American Non-Psycho
Dec 6, 2022

Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece

Valerie Stivers
Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece
Nov 9, 2022

The Booker Prize Rewards ‘Diversity’ Over Difference

Valerie Stivers
The Booker Prize Rewards ‘Diversity’ Over Difference
Oct 18, 2022

Against 'Kindness'

Valerie Stivers
Against 'Kindness'
Aug 30, 2022

The Reluctant Wokester

Valerie Stivers
The Reluctant Wokester
Jul 22, 2022

Rural Erasure

Valerie Stivers
Rural Erasure
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