Topic: “Fiction”
May 2018
Not just remembrance
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On Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, Theory of Shadows by Paolo Maurensig, A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré & The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Koreaby Bandi.
May 2018
“The Idiot” savant
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On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
December 2017
A cycle of madness
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A new look at Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman.
May 2017
Doubling in Dublin
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On The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses by Vivien Igoe.
September 2016
“The Backwash of War” at 100
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On the one-hundredth anniversary of the World War I novel.
September 2016
The goulash archipelago
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On Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy, and the character of Central Europe.
September 2016
Fear & loathing in Algeria
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On a novelization of the life and death of Communist dissident Fernand Iveton.
June 2016
Mixing memory & desire
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On Patrick Modiano’s deliberate obscurantism.
May 2016
The disease of theory:
“Crime & Punishment” at 150
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On theory’s deleterious effects in Crime and Punishment.