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Byline: Merve Emre Back from the Dead The afterlife of Susan Taubes. In Sigmund Freud's 'Rat Man,' a case history of a neurotic young man, there is a curious footnote [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Marvellous Things The worlds of Italo Calvino. The bookstore in your neighborhood sits on a busy corner. You pass it on your walk to work in the [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Everyone's a Critic What are literary studies for? Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century-among them 'A Degenerate Noble,' [...]

Byline: Merve Emre The Mind's Eye Gerald Murnane's recursive retrospects. On most evenings this past spring, the man who lives across the street sat at his small desk, turned on [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Bodies Politic How Cristina Rivera Garza's fiction reconceives desire. The 'Torso of Adéle' is among the smallest and most sensual of Auguste Rodin's partial figures. She has [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Getting to Yes The making of 'Ulysses.' The Twitter account UlyssesReader is what programmers call a 'corpus-fed bot.' The corpus on which it feeds is James Joyce's [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Bewitched The mystical modernism of Mary Butts. Many people in England think of Dorset as Thomas Hardy country. They have been to Dorchester or Weymouth, have driven [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Sentimental Education Simone de Beauvoir's lost novel of early love. The legend of Simone de Beauvoir-of how an obedient Catholic schoolgirl cast off her rigid, patriarchal upbringing [...]

Byline: Merve Emre School of Hard Knocks A philosophical novel about adolescent bullying. In an age of voice-driven fiction, the phrase 'novel of ideas' has an unavoidably dusty ring. It [...]

Byline: Merve Emre The Politics of Feeling A quarter century of emotional intelligence. My parents did not often concern themselves with my moral education, but, when they did, whatever wisdom [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Extravagant Creatures Leonora Carrington's matriarchal Surrealism. When asked to describe the circumstances of her birth, the Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington liked to tell people that [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Tricked Out Our love-hate relationship with gimmicks. When Jennifer Egan's novel 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' won the Pulitzer Prize, in 2011, much fuss was made [...]

Byline: Merve Emre Aging Ungracefully Sigrid Nunez's women confront the indignities of their declining years. Life is short, it is said, though not as short as the vast majority of [...]