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The article reports on Annie Ernaux, the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist and memoirist, who is known for reinventing the memoir genre by focusing on specific periods or episodes in her life, often revisiting incidents across multiple books. Her works blend memory, the narrative present and the time of writing, creating an endless expanding story and her latest work, "The Young Man," delves into her affair with a much younger student.

MELISSA MORRIS spent the first week of her parental leave grading essays about the American Revolution. It was 2017, and Morris was in her first semester as an assistant professor [...]

In his elegiac memoir, ''Come Back in September,'' the novelist and critic Darryl Pinckney recalls his former writing teacher and lifelong friend, and the vibrant New York intellectual world they [...]

The article discusses Mccarthy has built a reputation as a recluse. A college dropout and an autodidact, he's largely refused the social and professional obligations that occupy most writers. Like Thomas Pynchon and J.D. Salinger, he eschews interviews. Unlike many writers, he doesn't write book reviews, or lecture, or teach.

ON JULY 13, 2019, the philosopher Kate Marine opened up Twitter and prepared to send out a flurry of tweets. The day before, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker had tried [...]

As a result, The Right to Sex is an exciting example of new thinking in feminist political theory as well as a work of feminist intellectual history - a project of recovery and preservation, like so many feminist projects before it. This intra-feminist fighting had peaked, Srinivasan notes, by the early '80s, especially between those feminists defending women's sexual preferences - including the preference to be dominated in bed - and those arguing that feminists should engage only in perfectly equitable sex. Srinivasan gestured in the essay toward a new feminist perspective, one that would draw on the work of the second-wave feminists of the 1960s and '70s, who took questions of sexual desire seriously, without replicating some of their blind spots conis cerning race and class. To accomplish this goal, Srinivasan revisits the supposed losers of the feminist sex wars: the anti-sex and anti-porn feminists. [Extracted from the article]

PURE FLAMEA Legacy By Michelle Orange I've written a lot about motherhood: essays, reading lists, book reviews, my first book. I have never once written about my own mother. On [...]

I was in a PhD program in English right around the same time as Dorothy and Strong's narrator. She notices, for instance, that her mother "had told her so many times that she was not disappointed by Dorothy that Dorothy had to assume her mother was very disappointed." In one 18-month span, graduate student workers voted to unionize at 14 institutions, including at Columbia, likely Dorothy's employer and the alma mater of Strong's narrator. Dorothy, a clinically detached narrator, is an observer of waste - you might say a student of it. [Extracted from the article]

This is how Gaitskill depicts Quin, one of the two narrators of her most recent work of fiction, This Is Pleasure, who is caught up in a publishing industry scandal, the kind now familiar from the Me Too movement. Weakness in Gaitskill's work is both an enticement and a threat. Gaitskill's best-known piece of fiction, "Secretary", is a story about office work. A newly trained typist and the only first-person narrator in Bad Behavior, Debby finds a job doing "very dull work" for an unusually inquisitive lawyer. [Extracted from the article]

TRICK MIRRORReflections on Self-DelusionBy Jia Tolentino In May 2017, Jia Tolentino declared the personal essay dead. ''The personal is no longer political in quite the same way that it was,'' [...]

THE MOST entertaining part of any Ivy League alumni magazine is, invariably, the letters section. Here one finds lyric missives from former students, many of whom graduated decades ago and [...]

The ending of Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, a bildungsroman set largely in 1930s Harlem, is famously strange. The anonymous narrator--a young, black intellectual--escapes a violent street protest via [...]

The article presents information on writer Mary McCarthy's life and literary contributions including "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood", "The Oasis", and "The Group". Topics include her devotion toward presenting facts and the truth in all her works, her left-wing political views, and connections, and her childhood experiences.

A literary criticism of the book "Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay," edited by Daniel Mark Epstein is presented. It explores the reputation of poet Millay, the foreword written by scholar Holly Peppe, the effects of domestic labor on Millay as revealed in the diaries compiled in the book, the childhood experience of Millay, and a carpe-diem attitude adopted by Millay.

The article discusses the life, career, and accomplishments of American novelist and literary critic Elizabeth Hardwick. Topics explored include the personality and attitude of Hardwick particularly in reviewing books, brief details about her family, education, and initial involvement in fiction writing, and the notable recognition earned by her 1945 debut novel "The Ghostly Lover."

A literary criticism of the book "The Power of Adrienne Rich" by Hilary Holladay is presented. It offers a brief personal background of Rich is provided. It discusses the theme of feminism in some of her works like "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" and "Diving Into the Wreck." Rich's marriage to her husband, Conrad, considered as her initial rebellion against patriarchy is discussed.

Cheers: Death Cab for Curie announced another stop on its Codes and Keys tour: July 21 at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y. The next day, the group wraps up its [...]

Pink holiday: Nicki Minaj will head out on a North American tour this summer tied to her February release, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. After a European stint, the domestic dates [...]

Mark it with an "x": The xx will return with select dates in London prior to its European tour this summer, including gigs May 14,15 and 18 at Electrowerkz, Chats [...]

Potent pairing: Latin stars Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias announced a 20city tour beginning July 14 in Montreal. Wisin & Yandel are also along for the [...]

A shining affair: Rising English goth-pop artist Charli XCX scored big gigs opening for Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto tour this summer. The singer will appear at Boston's TD Garden on Aug. [...]

Walk on: Indie rock vets the Walkmen added some August dates to their summer tour. The group starts out May 3 in Brooklyn at the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival and, [...]

Body work: Texas singer/songwriter Sarah Jaffe will play a handful of dates to support upcoming sophomore album The Body Wins(April 24, Kirtland Records), including the sold-out fifth annual Camayo Cruise [...]

On the rise: Scranton, Pa., punk band the Menzingers are plowing through a run with Rise Against and A Day to Remember, hitting campuses including Old Dominion (Constant Convocation Center [...]