Yuliya Kozyrakis (FUB): Remembering the Future: Ethnic Memory in Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Parvin Ghasemi and Mitra Tiur (Shiraz): The Promise and Failure of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction. From Standpoint, Craig Raine on poet-novelists or novelist-poets: does it matter? From The Wilson Quarterly, a review of books on Jane Austen. The working-class lover of JM Synge, one of Ireland’s great playwrights, has been airbrushed out of history. Paul la Farge reviews Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy. Before Milledgeville, Georgia was just another place for Ben Roethlisberger to degrade women, it was the country home of Flannery O'Connor. Terry Teachout reviews Brad Gooch's Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (and more; and more by Wendy Lesser at Bookforum). A review of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay (and more). From NYRB, a review essay on books about Charles Dickens. Dickens and People: Today’s gossip magazines are like 19th-century serialized novels. Pointing to the Divine: Robert E. Lauder on Eugene O'Neill and the need for God. A review of The Female Gothic: New Directions. A review of The Novel: An Alternative History — Beginnings to 1600 by Steven Moore. Late Renaissance Man: Intellectual adventure characterises the life of George Steiner. Crime fiction used to entertain us with double acts such as Holmes and Watson — but when and why did it lose its sense of humour? An interview with Martin Amis: "It's funny, life". Battle of the Books: Jim Walsh discovers the one place JD Salinger, America’s most famous literary recluse, could always be found — the courtroom. Francine Prose has produced a body of work that, taken as a whole, is without peer in contemporary American fiction.
