The most elite of the world’s white, male, under-60 novelists sometimes seem to ride together as if in a peloton, as if they were competitors in the Tour de France, coasting in and out of each other’s ...
Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Archipelago (Consortium, dist.), $18 trade paper (471p) ISBN 978-1-935744-18-4 Knausgaard's perplexing autobiographical third novel ...
The autobiographical epic is a genre that, like the epic poem, seems to belong to a more confidently heroic past. The confessional memoir that has supplanted it may share some of its ...