Renovating the House of Fiction: On Rachel Cusk’s “Coventry”
Donal Harris reviews Rachel Cusk’s new essay collection, “Coventry.”
Donal Harris is an associate professor in the department of English and director of the Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis. He is the author of On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines.
Donal Harris reviews Rachel Cusk’s new essay collection, “Coventry.”
Donal Harris reviews Wendy Griswold’s “American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture.”
Cold War modernists of the title do not seem to be the painters, sculptors, poets, and novelists who produced the original works.
In The Sacrament, the conflation of media publicity and private lives, which was always present in the Jonestown massacre, now becomes the main...