fiction.
on my world and whimsies.
The Stranger and What Transgressive Literature Is Permitted to Do
Meursault is indifferent to everything except sensation. The question is whether we are meant to condemn him.
On Reading Nabokov
The problem with Nabokov is that he makes you complicit. The prose is beautiful and the beauty is the point.
The Novel After Theory
Post-structuralism killed the author. What have novelists been doing with the corpse?
Kafka in the Office
Kafka's bureaucratic nightmares were not metaphors.
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On Unfinished Books
What does it mean to publish the fragments?