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  1. book review
    City on Fire Is Trying to Have It Too Many WaysThe year’s biggest debut says a lot about what sort of story New York publishers and Hollywood think they can sell.
  2. Gamelife: Michael Clune’s New Gamer-Memoir ClassicAll those hours spent at the keyboard of a Commodore 64 or an Apple IIe, was any of it really fun?
  3. Toward a Unified Theory of Joan DidionThere’s nothing to be ashamed of in loving Joan Didion, whether you’re a 20-something woman who’d wear Céline if she could afford it or a Gen X man in corduroys.
  4. Gary Indiana’s Great Material“People like us are lucky because every shitty thing that happens to us is just more material,” Indiana has recalled Burroughs telling him.
  5. fall preview 2015
    What Our Critics Are Really Looking Forward to This FallTheir top five picks for the season.
  6. fall preview 2015
    How Jonathan Franzen Became America’s Leading Public MoralistOur foremost novelist as pundit.
  7. How Jonathan Franzen Became America’s Leading Public MoralistOur foremost novelist as pundit.
  8. My Favorite Doctorow: When He Played It StraightIt turned out that Doctorow the experimental historical novelist was also very good — masterful, really — at playing it straight.
  9. The Best Books of 2015 (So Far)Not included: the fastest-selling novel of the year.
  10. Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman: Better Off Lost?What can you make of a vastly inferior novel with a much more sophisticated morality?
  11. Benjamin Markovits’s Obama NovelObama himself even makes an appearance, delivering a speech with the line that gives the novel its title and giving the narrator a bloody nose with a misplaced elbow in a pickup basketball game.
  12. legacies
    The Rewriting of David Foster WallaceHow the author of Infinite Jest became the center of a self-help cult.
  13. Should White Men Stop Writing? A Q&A With Elisa Gabbert“White liberals should be questioning our own motives, and being careful not to dominate the conversation, and taking criticism seriously.”
  14. book review
    Nell Zink’s Brilliant Mislaid Is a Parody of a Satire of RaceIt uses southern racism as fuel for devious comic flights.
  15. Is Radical Queerness Possible Anymore? Poet Maggie Nelson’s New MemoirThe couple watch X-Men: First Class in bed and debate whether it’s better to be an assimilationist or a revolutionary. Are they fated to homonormativity?
  16. books
    The Very Public Saga of Karl Ove Knausgaard Writing About HimselfHis latest Volume 4: Dancing in the Dark is a lesser work than the first two books (though better than the third).