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Nov 13, 2024
Love in the Time of Menopause
Valerie Stivers
Sep 24, 2024
Sally Rooney’s Crypto-Christian Love
Valerie Stivers
Sep 4, 2024
The First Great Covid Novel
Valerie Stivers
Jul 31, 2024
Joy Williams’s Beautiful Apocalypse
Valerie Stivers
Jun 19, 2024
Rachel Cusk’s Cruel Misandry
Valerie Stivers
May 15, 2024
Honor Levy’s Half-Brilliant Adderall Prose
Valerie Stivers
Apr 18, 2024
Art-Making in a Disenchanted Age
Valerie Stivers
Mar 12, 2024
Beyond the Victimhood Grift
Valerie Stivers
Feb 20, 2024
Why Tolstoy Didn’t Want You to Have Sex
Valerie Stivers
Jan 23, 2024
The Perils of Dissident Literature
Valerie Stivers
Dec 5, 2023
Literature at the End of the World
Valerie Stivers
Nov 7, 2023
Sigrid Nunez’s Lockdown Literature
Valerie Stivers
Oct 25, 2023
‘Cat Person’ as Viral Fairy Tale
Valerie Stivers
Sep 27, 2023
Emily Wilson’s Sack of Homer
Valerie Stivers
Aug 31, 2023
A Master Novelist Visits Hell
Valerie Stivers
Jun 29, 2023
Bach Was No Liberal Humanist
Valerie Stivers
May 9, 2023
Unguarded Angel
Valerie Stivers
Apr 18, 2023
The Anti-Humanism of Han Kang
Valerie Stivers
Mar 20, 2023
The Wages of Mother-Work
Valerie Stivers
Feb 28, 2023
Social-Justice Satanism
Valerie Stivers
Jan 17, 2023
American Non-Psycho
Valerie Stivers
Dec 6, 2022
Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece
Valerie Stivers
Nov 9, 2022
The Booker Prize Rewards ‘Diversity’ Over Difference
Valerie Stivers
Oct 18, 2022
Against 'Kindness'
Valerie Stivers
Aug 30, 2022
The Reluctant Wokester
Valerie Stivers
Jul 22, 2022
Rural Erasure
Valerie Stivers
