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JW McCormack

is a writer whose work has appeared in Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, N1FR, Publisher's Weekly and Conjunctions, where he is a senior editor. He currently teaches at Columbia University.

Essays & Reviews

Consciously or Unconsciously

By JW McCormackMarch 6, 2014
Is the infamous white-supremacist novel The Turner Diaries a real threat, or just a shitty book for shitty people?
Essays & Reviews

The Quiet Life

By JW McCormackJanuary 17, 2014
Jesse Ball’s new novel, Silence Once Begun, rises above metafiction to read as tragedy
Essays & Reviews

Fjordian Slip

By JW McCormackJuly 16, 2013
The second volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s epic exploration of the everyday, in all its glorious meaninglessness
Essays & Reviews

The Lives of Others

By JW McCormackMarch 21, 2013
Literature stops saving your life when self-interest replaces curiosity about other people.
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