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April 30, 2016

Simulacrum

April 30, 2016/ Daniel Green

The intense problematics of Don DeLillo's literary preoccupations are on full display in his latest, Zero K. Dan Green explores the legacy of an author's postmodernism.

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April 30, 2016/ Daniel Green/
Fiction
Don DeLillo, fiction, May 2016, Thomas Pynchon
August 31, 2015

Knowledge of the Life

August 31, 2015/ Daniel Green

What are literary biographies good for, anyway? Do they provide insight into the work or just tittle-tattle about the life? Scott Donaldson's The Impossible Craft offers a brief on this endlessly alluring genre.

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August 31, 2015/ Daniel Green/
Arts & Life
Book Review, Daniel Green, September 2015
October 01, 2014

John Domini’s Transformations

October 01, 2014/ Daniel Green

With literary criticism disappearing as a popular artform, we increasingly look to the book reviewer to do the critic's work. A new collection by John Domini offers an example of reviews that transcend their form to provide analysis alongside mere evaluation.

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October 01, 2014/ Daniel Green/
Literary Criticism
Book Review, Daniel Green, fiction, literary criticism, October 2014
December 31, 2013

No Picnic

December 31, 2013/ Daniel Green

To literary scholar Laura Frost, the great 20th century modernists created readerly pleasures not through familiar comforts but by transforming difficulty and strangeness into something exciting and new. Daniel Green tests the theory.

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December 31, 2013/ Daniel Green/
Fiction, Politics & History
Aldous Huxley, Book Review, d-h- lawrence, Daniel Green, fiction, James Joyce, January 2014, Jean Rhys, Lionel Trilling, Ulysses
September 30, 2012

Claiming the Future

September 30, 2012/ Daniel Green

Julio Cortázar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez brought Latin American fiction to the attention of the world. Now a young crop of writers are trying to move beyond magical realism--a new anthology charts the diverse approaches.

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September 30, 2012/ Daniel Green/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, Daniel Green, fiction, Fiction Review, literary criticism, October 2012
February 29, 2012

Acts of Rendition

February 29, 2012/ Daniel Green

Richard Poirier was one of the great bridge-builders--his sorely neglected classic A World Elsewhere drew upon the writing of Emerson but presciently anticipated the postmodernist ideas that would soon enter the mainstream.

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February 29, 2012/ Daniel Green/
Features, Literary Criticism
Daniel Green, fiction, literary criticism, March 2012, Robert Frost, William James
March 31, 2011

Strange Silence

March 31, 2011/ Daniel Green

Stanley Elkin's fiction is marked by verbal wizardry and a searing comic vision; does a new biography do justice to his underappreciated artistry?

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March 31, 2011/ Daniel Green/
Fiction, Arts & Life
April 2011, Book Review, Daniel Green, fiction
July 31, 2008

Life on the Page

July 31, 2008/ Daniel Green

He’s the world’s most highly-regarded critic, and in How Fiction Works James Wood doesn’t stop at simply describing what’s in good novels but prescribes how they ought to be written. Daniel Green tells us how the fiction that James Wood really, really likes works.

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July 31, 2008/ Daniel Green/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
August 2008, Daniel Green, fiction, literary criticism
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