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Opening the Gate

By Aaron BadyFebruary 24, 2016
The Ivorian novelist Edwige Renée-DRO talks about the wealth of writing talent and the weakness of Africa’s publishing infrastructure
Essays & Reviews

Continental Drift

By Michael McCanneDecember 23, 2015
The European Union is a grand act of forgetting, but, in the novels of Ágota Kristóf, the violence of Europe's past keeps coming back to the surface
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Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two

By Antoine VolodineApril 2, 2015
The Post-Exotic novel wants to destroy reality. The second half of Antoine Volodine's essay on the form of the novel, its destruction and its reconstruction
Essays & Reviews

Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part One

By Antoine VolodineApril 1, 2015
The post-exotic novel offers lessons in attacking the strictures of official literature
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Adventures in Candyland

By Charles ThaxtonFebruary 24, 2015
Tom McCarthy’s new novel is attentive to the fibers of our social networks, but forgetful of its fleshy reader
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The New Kid

By Corey EastwoodSeptember 18, 2014
Joseph Harms’s debut novel of high school depravity Baal is trying too hard in all the right ways
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