Kevin Lozano

How Laura Poitras Finds the Truth The director has a knack for getting people to tell her things they've never told anyone else—including her latest subject, Seymour Hersh.

Spent some time with Laura Poitras for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key characteristics—the idea of time itself.

Bakhtin, Joyce, the ancients, the supply chain, love, death, and time itself! Truly great essay on the Danish novels YOU should be reading

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A Year in Reading: Richard Brody - The Millions Richard Brody reflects: "In the past few decades, my years in reading have been nearly coextensive with my years in riding..."

Greatly enjoyed the piece by @kevinlozano.bsky.social in @newyorker.com on Malcolm Cowley's life of literary reclamations; I looked closely a few years ago at one of them—of William Faulkner—and the resulting correspondence:
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How the UK Media Became Complicit in the Gaza Genocide An interview with British journalist Peter Oborne.

I spoke to Peter Oborne about Trump's role in the crisis at the BBC, the Prescott dossier's revisionist history on Gaza, and the complicity of UK media in 2+ years of genocide for
@thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set about championing writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as uniquely American.

I am grateful to Kevin Lozano of The New Yorker for this excellent review essay on THE INSIDER, which puts Malcolm Cowley front and center, where he belongs

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The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set about championing writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as uniquely American.

I wrote about Malcolm Cowley the and the invention of the American canon for @newyorker.com

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The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set about championing writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as uniquely American.

very very good @kevinlozano.bsky.social review www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Richard Price’s Street Life The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of city life.

I profiled Richard Price for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Is Criticism Really in Crisis? Andrea Long Chu and the politics of critical life.

Wrote about the worst thing in the entire world....criticism

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