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We chose the most famous book set in every state. The list features various genres, from historical fiction and thrillers to ...
I would tell a different story about the decline of literary fiction, and it is a story about social pressure and conformity.
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When Novels Mattered
I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...
It might seem counterintuitive, but even off the clock, safety professionals can help protect workers all summer long.
Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.
For Wallace, Sampras, with his no-nonsense focus on discipline, clarity, power and physicality (athleticism) represented Spartan virtues. Agassi, colorful, philosophical, impulsive and iconoclastic, ...
Tennis legends swap rackets for golf clubs. The casual golf meeting showcased a different side of these sporting giants, far removed from the intense atmosphere of Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Because the truth is: Yes, students are using A.I. And no, they’re not just using it to cheat. They’re using it to brainstorm, to summarize, to translate, to scaffold. To write. The model is there — ...
I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, ...
In January 2011, Columbia University Press will publish an adaptation of the undergraduate philosophy thesis David Foster Wallace wrote while he was a student at Amherst.
Is this the death of the male novelist? The lonely life of a man writing fiction in 2025 - IN FOCUS: A long-overdue shift to ...
Tulathimutte’s characters have no choice but to elevate masturbation to an art because no one else is willing to touch them.