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No Exit
... tobacco. Nothing is numinous. Nothing is redeemed. This, surely, is true to the experience of depression that Serotonin enacts. There’s no exit but death. Christian Lorentzen is a writer living in New...
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Press Play
... treatments of ambiguity. It’s time for hysterical realism to return from beyond the pale. Christian Lorentzen is a writer in Brooklyn. ...
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Tell Me Everything
... meaningless or false. Let them think you’re a mystery. But keep no secrets. And tell no one. Christian Lorentzen is a writer living in Brooklyn. ...
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Low Life
...’s buried next to Sartre, she’s wearing Algren’s ring. Christian Lorentzen is a writer living in New York....
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Grace in the Hole
...’s struggle to bear witness. Their abundant pleasures emerge from the tension between the two. Christian Lorentzen is a writer living in New York ....
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Notes on Campaign
... Our best hope for 2020 is that a superior celebrity emerges and everybody changes the channel. Christian Lorentzen writes the books column at New York magazine. ...
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The Riot Stuff
... there for the purpose of concealing from you a game both simple and complex, which you prefer to ignore.” Christian Lorentzen writes the books column at New York....
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A Spouse Divided
... house, previously home to generations of New England wasps, is a recently hired Radcliffe dean, who happens to be a black woman. Christian Lorentzen is the book columnist for New York magazine and...
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Tour de Raunch
... observed could only last so long. Puritans after all have the dirtiest minds. Christian Lorentzen is the book columnist for New York magazine....
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Future of Fiction
... public service. I’ve always on opening it wanted to hear it blasted from a loudspeaker. Christian Lorentzen is an editor of the London Review of Books. ...
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Twenty Years Booked
Bookforum asked contributors to weigh in on the most distinctive and influential works of the past two decades. The writers named the best works in a number of categories—and
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The Power of Positive Thinking
... somebody gets elected. Christian Lorentzen is an editor at large of the London Review of Books and book critic for New York magazine....
