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Does America love Jonathan Franzen?
... At New York, Christian Lorentzen has an essay on Jonathan Franzen’s Purity, in which he joins organizing a party that night at the Brattle Theatre (Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and...
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Into the Mists
... Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of Books....
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Covering Guantanamo Diary
... Christian Lorentzen reviews Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Diary, “a relentless catalogue of grotesque abuses.” Mark Danner covers the urges Michael Bloomberg to buy the New York Times...
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Mark Zuckerberg's new book club
... editor and regular Bookforum contributor Christian Lorentzen....
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Bookforum turns twenty (!)
...—including Geoff Dyer, Christian Lorentzen, Christine Smallwood, Lydia Davis, Luc Sante, J. Hoberman, Chris Kraus, and many others—to write about notable books of the past twenty years. Meanwhile, Heather...
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Back to the Present
... and artistic, and it signals a new direction in American fiction, perhaps a fertile one. Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of Books. ...
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Buddy System
... answer to the question “Can our friends save us?” Maybe, maybe not. Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of Books. ...
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The Wild Bunch
... historicism-with a sense of precision verging on the dutiful. I’d be curious to see what would happen if she turned her eye to the sort of history that unfolds in the present. Christian Lorentzen...
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The Best Novels of 2013
...Bookforum contributor Christian Lorentzen picks his favorite novels of the year, from Coetzee's "deep joke" to Pynchon's portrayal of the "deep Web." Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the...
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The Gospel According to Norman
... Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of Books. ...
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The Tippling Point
... you’ve just poured a new drink. That’s what happens to Alun, and it serves him right: He spent too much time getting lucky. Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of...
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Jul 9, 2013 @ 12:27:00 am
... a stir" among historians. Over the past few months, New York Magazine book critic Kathryn Schulz has shared her distaste for The Great Gatsby, Christian Lorentzen has gone after Alice Munro in...
