Tag: Novels
The Subversive Power of Romance Novels
One of my most enduring school memories is of an austere English teacher urging us—a class of two dozen 13-year-old girls with all the raging hormones of a Harry Styles arena tour—not to succumb to the books of Jackie Collins. “If you read trash, girls,” she articulated, with icy precision, “you will write trash.” Thinking back on this, all I can summon is: I wish. Collins sold half a billion novels during her life, made more than $100
The Novel That Found Its Melodrama in the Psychoanalyst’s Office
Before I’d read any psychoanalytic texts, or attempted therapy myself, I was drawn to the practice for its facility with plot. This intrigue began in high school, when my mom went into training to become a clinical psychologist. Occasionally, she would arrange for a classmate to try the inkblot test on me. As a result of these sessions and of being exposed to the new terminology floating around our household, I began to sense that a problem, stared at over
Hier sind die besten Superhelden-Graphic Novels, nicht Marvel oder DC
Die jungen wurde ursprünglich vom DC Comics-Imprint WildStorm veröffentlicht, bevor es von Dynamite Entertainment wiederbelebt wurde. Der von Garth Ennis geschriebene und von Darick Robertson mitgestaltete, gestaltete und illustrierte Comic handelt von einer geheimen CIA-Truppe namens „The Boys“, die damit beauftragt ist, die wild und skrupellos gewordene Superhelden-Community zu überwachen, die egoistisch geworden ist dank ihres Prominentenstatus.
Die Serie ist heute eine beliebte Live-Action-Fernsehshow von Prime Video, mit mehreren Spin-off-Shows, die auf den Comics in Arbeit basieren.
When a Novel Reimagines a Nation
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The idea that novelists might partake in the project of nation-building by reimagining the past in order to create the possibility of a shared future dates back to at least Walter Scott. But some of the most artistically successful examples come from post-colonial Africa, where belief in the meaning of arbitrarily drawn borders can require an unusual stretch of the imagination. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ousmane Sembène, and
Ted Mooney, Autor von Inventive Novels, ist mit 70 Jahren tot
Sein aufmerksamkeitsstarkes erstes Buch „Easy Travel to Other Planets“ begann mit Delfin-Mensch-Sex. Die drei folgenden waren vergleichsweise unkonventionell.
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In Sheila Heti’s Novel, Critics Could Save the World—or Destroy It
A Japanese folktale concerns a young acolyte so obsessed with drawing cats that the elderly and perplexed head priest sends him away. In time, he finds shelter in an abandoned temple that, unbeknownst to him, is haunted. But he has ink. He draws cats all over the walls, the beams, and the floors. Tiring, he tucks himself into a closet to sleep, but wakes to the sounds of violent struggle. When the temple falls silent, he creeps out. The mangled
15 Books That Deserve a Second Read
Hundreds of thousands of books are published in the United States each year, and this dramatic influx of titles largely runs the calendars of the publishing and media industries—usually to the detriment of any work that isn’t brand new. Even best sellers or novels by famous authors get lost in the deluge, and books that were beloved on release can fall off readers’ radar quickly. But many were popular or critically acclaimed for good reasons, and they’re worth revisiting.
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The Case Against the Trauma Plot
It was on a train journey, from Richmond to Waterloo, that Virginia Woolf encountered the weeping woman. A pinched little thing, with her silent tears, she had no way of knowing that she was about to be enlisted into an argument about the fate of fiction. Woolf summoned her in the 1924 essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” writing that “all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite”—a character who awakens the imagination. Unless the English novel
Die besten Graphic Novels des Jahres 2021
Mannie Murphys ICH HABE DIR NIE EINEN ROSENGARTEN VERSPRICHT (Fantagraphics, 216 S., 24,99 $) ist eine geheime Geschichte von Portland, Oregon, die in eindringlichen Tintenwaschungen auf liniertem Papier wiedergegeben wird. „An diesem Halloween vor 21 Jahren erfuhren wir die schrecklichen Neuigkeiten“, beginnt das Buch wie eine Horrorgeschichte und reflektiert den 1993 geborenen Tod des in Oregon geborenen River Phoenix an einer Überdosis Heroin. Murphy, der genderqueer ist, nutzt die Veranstaltung, um Portlands schwulen Untergrund, seine Verbindung zur Filmwelt (Gus Van
Mario Vargas Llosa Returns to the Dictator Novel
There were two powers running Guatemala after the Second World War, and only one of them was the government. The other, an American corporation called the United Fruit Company, was known inside the country as the Octopus, because it had tentacles everywhere. It was Guatemala’s largest employer and landowner, and it controlled the country’s only Atlantic port, almost every mile of the railroads, and the nation’s sole telephone and telegraph facilities. U.S. State Department officials had siblings in the upper