Louise Erdrich is one of most prolific and best-known contemporary novelists on this list. She’s an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe Nation (Chippewa), and much of her writing reflects the mixed heritage of her German-American father and half-Ojibwe, half-French mother. She often writes ...
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Begun in 1988 with a volume guest-edited by John Ashbery,The Best American Poetry(BAP) series has been running for a startling 36 years and counting, including intercalary volumes such as aBest of The Best of American Poetry(edited by Harold Bloom in 1997), and a 25thanniversary edition (e...
Like some of my favorite English novelists, Graham writes beautifully about the landscape… which makes the grisly murders all the more jarring. There is also a great deal of horticultural detail to be found, for better or worse. A Golden Age-style murder mystery set very much in the ...
Mike Judge’s sci-fi satire seemed cursed from the moment 20th Century Fox abandoned it at the last minute, making the film an inevitable box office bomb. But despite all of that, the film has persisted and worked its way into American pop culture purely on the strength of its depressingly...
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Then there are poems that are haiku-like in their brevity, American takes on the immediate and the passing, such as “Fame” fromAt the Fair: A hot dog paper blows across the infield, passing into shadows near third base. Other poems register, in language that becomes surprisingly activated...
AMERICAN authorsINTELLECTUALSGAZE20TH century (Literary period)21ST century (Literary period)In her article "The Female Best-Friend Novel: Narration and the Reconsideration of the Political Act," Neta Stahl argues that twentieth- and twenty-first-century women novelists borrowed the eighteenth-...
Albertalli’s feel-good novel is still able, however, to flirt with some bigger questions about homophobia and the experience of being a closeted teen in the American South. 48. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Buy on Amazon Add to library In this romantic retelling of a perennial ...