Thomas Pynchon’s plots, intricate though they are, can’t compete with DJT’s fictions.
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Even Pynchon Couldn’t Imagine DJT
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Fiction as Authoritarian Weapon
In “Seduced by Story,” Peter Brooks warns of the dangers of narrative. Borges agrees in “Tlon Uqbar.”
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Lit vs. Fabricated Reality
What are serious authors to do when they care confronted with fabricated realities? Author Kakutani reflects on life under Trumpism.
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