The Unforgettable Women of ‘Men Like Ours’
The Cut’s Bindu Bansinath pens a suburban thriller about solidarity
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psychological fiction
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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