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see all contributions from Christine Smallwood

  • print • Dec/Jan/Feb 2023

    Cold Comforts

    A new biography of novelist Shirley Hazzard • Christine Smallwood

    ...”  Christine Smallwood is the author of the novel The Life of the Mind (Hogarth, 2021). ...

  • print • June/July/Aug 2021

    What forms of art, activism, and literature can speak authentically today?

    Bookforum contributors on the risky books they’d like to read now

    ... would remain unwritten. --CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD I am struggling to think of what the recent books I’ve truly loved have in common, because in most ways they are all so different, and the only way I...

  • print • Mar/Apr/May 2021

    Apocalypse When

    Christine Smallwood’s novel of endings that feel unending • Claire Jarvis

    ... THE LIFE OF THE MIND, Christine Smallwood’s debut novel, begins with an ending. We meet Dorothy, a contingent faculty member in the English department where she used to be a doctoral student...

  • print • Feb/Mar 2020

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Jenny Offill’s novel of the barely bearable present • Christine Smallwood

    ...” Christine Smallwood’s debut novel will be published by Hogarth. ...

  • print • Dec/Jan 2020

    “Nobody Likes Being Called a Cesspool”

    D. H. Lawrence's stunning, indefensible essays • Christine Smallwood

    ... Christine Smallwood is a writer living in Brooklyn. ...

  • print • Summer 2018

    State of Affairs

    John Updike’s Couples Christine Smallwood

    ... book is five hundred pages of people demonstrating again and again that they are incapable of turning down an invitation to a party at which they are guaranteed to have a bad time. Christine...

  • print • June/July/Aug 2017

    Pleasure and the Text

    A new series of erotic novels emerges from the art world. • Christine Smallwood

    ... Lovers series. In Burning Blue, the narrator is going through . . . menopause. Christine Smallwood writes the New Books column for Harper’s Magazine....

  • print • Apr/May 2016

    Desert Course

    Geoff Dyer’s book of bleak, neurotic travel writing • Christine Smallwood

    ...” Dyer writes about Tahiti, “was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had of it.” I know how he feels. Christine Smallwood writes...

  • print • Feb/Mar 2016

    Short Cuts

    New anthologies map out three approaches to the American short story • Christine Smallwood

    ... thing about a short story is that it doesn’t have time to teach you how to read it. So very often we come up on an ending unprepared. Christine Smallwood writes the New Books column for Harper...

  • print • Dec/Jan 2015

    Hybrid Times

    Hilton Als’s mix of criticism, fiction, and self-portraiture • Christine Smallwood

    ... resentment. The Women _is implicitly an invitation. The only way to write a book like it is to leave it behind. Christine Smallwood writes the New Books column for Harper’s Magazine....

  • print • Apr/May 2014

    The Grain of the Choice

    Lydia Davis’s inimitable decision process • Christine Smallwood

    ... someone else? You might as well ask if I could dream someone else’s dream. Christine Smallwood is a New Books columnist for Harper’s Magazine. ...

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2020

    Passing Through

    Sigrid Nunez’s novel of death, friendship, and the writing life • Christine Smallwood

    THE NARRATOR OF SIGRID NUNEZ’S NEW NOVEL, What Are You Going Through, is an unmarried female writer who seems to be between sixty and seventy years old. She has a friend,