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see all contributions from Christian Lorentzen

  • print • Apr/May 2019

    Low Life

    A biography of novelist Nelson Algren • Christian Lorentzen

    ...’s buried next to Sartre, she’s wearing Algren’s ring. Christian Lorentzen is a writer living in New York....

  • print • Feb/Mar 2019

    Grace in the Hole

    The recursive violence of David Means • Christian Lorentzen

    ...’s struggle to bear witness. Their abundant pleasures emerge from the tension between the two. Christian Lorentzen is a writer living in New York ....

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2018

    Notes on Campaign

    Ben Fountain revisits (and tries to make historical sense of) the convulsions of the 2016 election. • Christian Lorentzen

    ... 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. ...

  • print • Summer 2018

    The Riot Stuff

    Covering the chaos outside 1968’s presidential conventions • Christian Lorentzen

    ... 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....

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2017

    A Spouse Divided

    Richard Stern and divorce in the American novel • Christian Lorentzen

    ... 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...

  • papertrail • June 14, 2017

    A Trump-like Caesar; Did Bob Dylan Use Sparknotes?

    ... cobbled together out of phrases on the website SparkNotes, the online equivalent of CliffsNotes.” At Vice, Christian Lorentzen https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/michel-houellebecq-interview it posted...

  • print • June/July/Aug 2017

    Tour de Raunch

    A brief history of sex in American fiction • Christian Lorentzen

    ... observed could only last so long. Puritans after all have the dirtiest minds. Christian Lorentzen is the book columnist for New York magazine....

  • papertrail • May 11, 2017

    Hillary Clinton to appear at BEA; Chris Kraus's new book

    ... Simon & Schuster. At Vulture, Christian Lorentzen http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/grantas-best-young-american-novelists-one-by-one.html?mid=twitter_vulture, After Kathy Acker, a literary...

  • interviews • April 13, 2017

    Bookforum talks with Durga Chew-Bose

    Sarah Nicole Prickett

    ...’ve used Le Pen pens for ages. I do too now. I guess you can’t say “the afternoon light exaggerates my Le Pen pen’s worth.” D: At one point in the edits, I read Christian Lorentzen’s piece about how he...

  • print • Dec/Jan 2015

    Future of Fiction

    Future of Fiction • Christian Lorentzen

    ... 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. ...

  • print • Dec/Jan 2015

    Twenty Years Booked

    highlights of the past two decades • J. Hoberman, Dave Hickey, Geoff Dyer, Luc Sante, Wayne Koestenbaum, Wendy Lesser, Geoffrey O’brien, Christian Lorentzen, Albert Mobilio, Curtis Sittenfeld, Andrew Hultkrans, and Benjamin Kunkel

    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

  • print • Dec/Jan 2016

    The Power of Positive Thinking

    A new book tries to offer a sympathetic portrait of Donald Trump • Christian Lorentzen

    ... somebody gets elected. Christian Lorentzen is an editor at large of the London Review of Books and book critic for New York magazine....