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Monsterpieces: New Trump Harpooning
[Aside from the fact that Trump is a monster, we’re lately a little off the Monsterpiece track of Big Novels, but readers have shown interest in recent posts dealing with Trump. So I’m posting a link to my recent review of Ben Fountain’s ne...
Monsterpieces: The Harpooner
This was supposed to accompany Harpooning Donald Trump.
Monsterpieces: Harpooning Donald Trump
[It’s that time of year for some seaside reading. I’ve returned here in the past months to a couple of monsterpieces—The Public Burning, The Tunnel—because they have some bearing on Donald Trump. Today, it’s a long way back to Moby-Dick wit...
Monsterpieces: Big City, Big Data
[These reviews of two self-consciously Big Novels—Hallberg’s City on Fire and Cohen’s Book of Numbers—were published in 2015. If you missed the novels back then, you may want to give Hallberg and Cohen a look, for I think they are two of th...
Monsterpieces: Two Women
[Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (2022) and Lacey’s Biography of X (2023) are far apart in space and time—Europe and the United States, the 18th century and a counterfactual 20th century—but both are long and experimentally constructed biogr...
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At the age of 81, I've posted "Passing Down," the memoir of a lucky man whose luck ran out when he was diagnosed with cancer. Now that the memoir is finished, I'm posting "Monsterpieces," a decade of my published reviews of long novels.
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