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WHO IS THE GOAT OF AMERICAN FICTION?
With apologies to the two other members of my NBA/literature group chat, to the players selected last week in the NBA draft, to Stephen A. Smith, and to…
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Christian Lorentzen
ELEGY FOR A NUCLEAR PROGRAM WITHOUT A BOMB
& a baptism of fire in New York City
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‘I AM NOT A PARTICULARLY SMART OR IMAGINATIVE MAN, BUT . . . ’
Letters from David Foster Wallace go up for sale
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BRIAN WILSON & THE QUESTION OF GENIUS
At the conjuncture of rockism & poptimism
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BABYFACE VS. SCARFACE
On the Democratic primary for New York mayor
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LONDON READING
See you in Walthamstow tomorrow night
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Christian Lorentzen
FREELANCE EMOTIONAL DETECTIVES & PRISONERS OF HISTORY
On Leo Robson’s ‘The Boys’, other boys, and some girls (or men and women)
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Christian Lorentzen

May 2025

ARRESTED REDEVELOPMENT
On Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
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Christian Lorentzen
PLAYING CHICKEN
When Terry Southern adapted John Barth
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Christian Lorentzen
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS ACHIEVE THEIR ULTIMATE FORM
By the algorithm for the algorithm
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THE FACE OF DEFECTION
Gene Tierney and the first Cold War spy thriller, ‘The Iron Curtain’
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ASPHALT SUMMERS
On ‘Pavements’, ‘The Hard Quartet’, ‘Reality Bites’, et al.
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Christian Lorentzen
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