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CriticismThe Colophon

“Trauma-creep” and literature: does a single minded focus on trauma diminish literary characters?

February 4, 2022June 14, 2022

The reduction of literary characters to a history of trauma is too often used as convenient shorthand, robbing us of the pleasure found in complexity and ambiguity.

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CriticismThe Colophon

Critiquing the critics: Parul Sehgal on 125 years of the New York Times Book Review

March 3, 2021June 14, 2022

The New York Times literary critic surveys the history of the newspaper’s book review to discover what has, and what hasn’t, changed in the last century.

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