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A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era
E pluribus unum might be the proper political aspiration for a large and multifarious country, but when it comes to the novel people tend to applaud something closer to...
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast.Genres tend to...
Scene and Substance at New York’s Newest Hot Spot
Bridges is situated in Chinatown, in the former home of Hop Shing, a restaurant that served affordable, no-frills Guangdong-style dim sum from 1973 until it shuttered during the early...
Pope Francis, the Cardinals, and “Conclave”
The new movie “Conclave,” faithfully adapted from Robert Harris’s 2016 novel, tells the story of a vexed papal election by depicting the Vatican of melodramatic legend: dark corridors, footfalls,...
The Feminist Critic Who Kept Flaubert on His Toes
Madame Bovary, c’est moi. The phrase, often attributed to Gustave Flaubert, may be better known than any line in his novels. But many scholars consider the remark to be...
Kacey Musgraves, Offbeat Pageant Princess
Hilton AlsStaff writerIt’s hard to believe that it’s been almost twenty years since I first saw the great director David Cromer’s work. You don’t notice time passing when you’re...
Trump Talks Through His Hat
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Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season
As Hurricane Milton barrelled toward Florida last month, I taught a three-hour Zoom class and tried not to refresh my phone for updates. I grew up in Florida, and...
Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach Victory Celebration
Since early in the evening, the sense was that the rally-like crowd, drinking wine from a cash bar and eating spring rolls, was prepared to receive Trump as a...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz’s All-Time Favorite Sequels
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of nine novels, including “The Latecomer” and “You Should Have Known” (upon which “The Undoing,” the HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh...
