How It Looks From Here

Mar 9, 20223 min read

Soul-Error

Read an excerpt below: “My title suggests something awry at our human core. The opening chapter of the same title (a phrase from the...

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Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner

Philip Weinstein

Mar 8, 20224 min read

Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner

Read an excerpt below: None of these chapters scrupulously respects chronological order (although my narrative does...

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Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction

Philip Weinstein

Mar 7, 20222 min read

Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction

Read an excerpt below: What is at stake when a group of major modernist writers centers their fiction on unknowing? Decades of...

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Philip Weinstein

Mar 6, 20222 min read

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage

Read an excerpt below: Moving back and forth among Franzen’s essays and novels, I propose to chart a single writer’s odyssey. In so...

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Philip Weinstein

Mar 5, 20222 min read

Simply Faulkner

Read an excerpt below: Let’s begin by acknowledging that Simply Faulkner does not imply a simple Faulkner. The word “simply” runs the...

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Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns

Philip Weinstein

Mar 4, 20221 min read

Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns

Read an excerpt below: Abiding commitment to a writer may continue indefinitely, yet styles of interpretation change—sometimes...

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Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination

Philip Weinstein

Mar 4, 20221 min read

Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination

Read an excerpt below: When, as a sophomore in college, I first came into contact with the work of Henry James, I chanced to read him at...

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The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce

Philip Weinstein

Mar 3, 20221 min read

The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce

Read an excerpt below: Semantics and desire, signification and force, cultural value and natural impulse: the interplay of these paired...

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What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison

Philip Weinstein

Mar 2, 20222 min read

What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison

Read an excerpt below: “What else but love?” Guitar makes this answer to Milkman (in Morrison’s Song of Solomon), when he identifies the...

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