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William Faulkner

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The Sound and the Fury Is the Book for Our Political Moment

by Thomas Geoghegan July 16, 2021January 9, 2022

How Faulkner’s four narrators delineate Biden-era constituencies.

Two Cheers for Tom Wolf

by Jonathan Alter March 1, 1988June 26, 2023

Missed Moorings: American Novelists Lose Touch

by Nicholas Lemann February 1, 1986February 14, 2023

Today’s Best Journalism: Better Than Fiction

by Nicholas Lemann March 1, 1983February 10, 2023