#literary-style

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Books
fromHarper's Magazine
1 week ago

Ghostly Home, by Joy Williams, Will Stephenson

Joy Williams uses concise, mordant prose to distill lives into spare collages, focusing on Gene Hackman's lonely death and a haunting image of a dog.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

The Light of "The Brothers Karamazov"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky combines a wild, urgent style with a patient insistence on the central existential question: What are we living for?
Books
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for a visionary, apocalyptic oeuvre that reaffirms the power of art.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Gertrude Stein's Love Language

Early exposure to surreal, gendered imagery produced lasting identity anxieties, a persistent fear of dogs, gender curiosity, and an attraction to unconventional language.
Mental health
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Metaphysics of Panic

A heroin addiction narrative is depicted in high-modernist style that emphasizes the drug's allure and repeatedly subordinates recovery to the pursuit of heroin.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

Elmore Leonard's Perfect Pitch

Elmore Leonard's distinctive writing style includes sharp dialogue, detailed character descriptions, and intricate narrative structures.
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