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Lord Byron and the Birth of Vampires
Sexual politics meet literary monsters in a new book by Andrew McConnell Stott.
Why Did ‘Excellent Sheep’ Alienate So Many Readers?
William Deresiewicz’s new book appears to have touched a nerve.
A Letter Becomes a Book Becomes a Play
Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters From Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again takes 900 pages of correspondence between the two poets and turns them into an on-stage performance.
The Singularity Could Destroy Us All
In his new book, Nick Bostrom charts the near-inevitable rise of superintelligence. The future does not look bright.
Beyoncé Isn’t an Anti-Feminist Terrorist
A new book called Staging the Blues shows she's embracing a tradition of multi-dimensional stardom, rather than one racist trope.
Long Live Short Novels
Christopher Beha's Arts & Entertainments comes in at less than 300 pages long, which—along with a plot centered on a sex-tape scandal—makes it a uniquely efficient pleasure.
The Problems With William Deresiewicz’s New Manifesto
Excellent Sheep: a facile approach to an urgent critique.
How I Became a Knausgaard Truther
Did companies in Norway institute Knausgaard-free days in response to the popularity of Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical novel My Struggle? It's a question that led to a search for proof that something never happened.
Why Do Men Dislike Erotica for Women So Much?
William Giraldi’s attempt to pan Fifty Shades of Grey is just the latest in a long line of hollow critiques dating back to Elinor Glyn and the genre’s origins.