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Category Archives: Literature
Yael Goldstein Love
Yael Goldstein Love (b. 1978) is an American novelist, editor, and psychotherapist whose fiction examines how attachment, fear, and imagination reshape the mind. She works at the border between literary realism and speculative form, drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, and clinical … Continue reading
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Aimee Bender and the Uses of the Impossible
Aimee Bender (b. June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her fiction draws fairy tale, surrealism, and psychological realism into a single line of work. She sets one impossible event inside an ordinary world and follows … Continue reading
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Pearl Abraham, From Inside
Pearl Abraham (b. 1960) is an American novelist, essayist, translator, and teacher of creative writing whose fiction maps the moral and intellectual ground where Hasidic Judaism meets secular modernity. She belongs to a small group of writers who report on … Continue reading
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Danit Brown – One in Seven Million
Danit Brown (b. 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer whose fiction examines domestic life and the disturbances that run under it. She works in psychological realism, builds her narratives through shifts in perception rather than incident, and … Continue reading
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Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003)
Edward Said was a founder of postcolonial studies and a leading literary critic, cultural theorist, public intellectual, and political activist of the late twentieth century. His 1978 book Orientalism remade the humanities. In it he argues that Western scholarship, literature, … Continue reading
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Benjamin Schreier: Literary Critic of Jewish Identity and Ethnic Studies
Benjamin Schreier (b. 1972) holds the Mitrani Family Professorship of Jewish Studies and a professorship in English and Jewish Studies at Penn State University, where he has directed the Jewish Studies Program and the graduate program in English. Since 2011 … Continue reading
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What the Record Shows: David Marr and the Uses of Evidence
Across more than five decades, David Ewan Marr (b. 1947) has worked as an investigative reporter, newspaper editor, biographer, essayist, television presenter, and radio host. His subjects have included a Chief Justice of the High Court, a Nobel laureate in … Continue reading
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Peopling the Emptiness: The Life of Patrick White
Patrick White (1912-1990) stands as the central figure of twentieth-century Australian literature and the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Across twelve novels, eight plays, two collections of short fiction, and a memoir, he took a national … Continue reading
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The James Wood Show
Critic James Wood writes like a man reading aloud to you in a quiet room. The base unit is the close reading. He sets down a passage, usually a few lines from a novel he loves, and then he slows … Continue reading
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Jack London: A Life
Jack London (1876-1916) was a literary craftsman and a public celebrity. He worked as a novelist, a journalist, a war correspondent, a socialist organizer, a sailor, a rancher, and a self-styled adventurer. His fiction drew on naturalism, evolutionary theory, social … Continue reading
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