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Money Changes Everything
... questions while considering books from the past and near present. In the lead essay, CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN considers the successes and failures of money-themed fiction in the new millennium. HEATHER...
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Against Alice Munro
There’s something confusing about the consensus around Alice Munro. It has to do with the way her critics begin by asserting her goodness, her greatness, her majorness or
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Staff Picks: Brooklyn Book Festival
... events (all eighty-plus of them) to choose our favorites. If you can only make it to one panel, it should be Bookforum editor Michael Miller talking to LRB editor Christian Lorentzen and novelists...
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Jun 20, 2012 @ 4:00:00 am
...” with essays by Christian Lorentzen, Keith Gessen, Astra Taylor, and more. In its heyday, The Baffler magazine was known mainly for two things: witty cultural criticism and an erratic...
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Jun 6, 2012 @ 12:54:00 am
... Science blogger and author Jonah Lehrer has signed on as a http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/jonah-lehrer-joins-the-new-yorker-as-staff-writer_b52573 were made. In response to Christian Lorentzen...
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Fictitious Values
... and the branches of trees, torn up and flapping in the breeze. Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of Books....
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Jun 4, 2012 @ 12:11:00 am
...The new Bookforum is out. Here's Christian Lorentzen's essay on |http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/019_02/9453the Green Lantern will come out next week. ...
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
In 1941 the American journalist Dorothy Thompson published an essay called ‘Who Goes Nazi?’ She proposed ‘an interesting and somewhat macabre parlour game’ to be played
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Jan 10, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am
...“'Congrats' to @tao_lin and @meganboyle on their 'elopement.' News gave me a 'smiling' facial expression, 'restored' my 'faith in love.'” Christian Lorentzen writesTonight at...
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What Was The Hipster? A Sociological Investigation, edited by n+1
... doesn't offer any sense of the audience's reaction. (I read most of Christian Lorentzen's essay wondering if he was getting laughs). The editors acknowledge a "persistent inability … to place the...
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Sep 15, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am
..._03/6361 and critic Christian Lorentzen) will debrief INS founder Tom McCarthy and Chief Philospher Simon Critchley on recent findings. What strides has the INS made toward their goal to "map, enter...
