Happy 100th, Allen Ginsberg!
One of the best minds of his generation, not quite sidelined by madness
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American literature
In ‘Transcription,’ Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother’s Voice
Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the sense that Lerner, though 47, is still a bit of a mama’s boy. These three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), 10:04 (2014) and The Topeka School (2019) all have male protagonists that are Lerner and yet are not. They love art, language, and poetry, but
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On the Internet, Every Century is a Dog
Looking back at Jack London on the 150th anniversary of his birth
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‘An American Tragedy’ at 100
A novel of Dostoyevskian scope examines a social dynamic baked into the present no less than the world of 1925
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Louis C.K. Writes the Great American Trash Epic
‘Ingram’ is a Southern-Gothic fever dream — part Twain, part crawl-back
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