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Books Essay Swarthmore Review

“It says here to burn the rich and take their shit”: An interview with poet Michael Robbins

October 5, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment Alien vs. Predator, michael robbins

While I could start by quoting Benjamin on Baudelaire, or make some sweeping — and likely very silly– statement about

October 2, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment book review, english, literature, the scrivener

At one point in Ben Lerner’s new book, “10:04,” the narrator visits the studio space of his lover, Alena. Alena’s

September 4, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment book review, Haruki Murakami, Tsukuru Tazaki

Here’s a joke: what’s the name of that one Haruki Murakami novel with the aimless, somewhat developmentally-arrested thirty-something protagonist who

May 9, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment

At first glance, Donna Tartt seems to be the anti-Bret Easton Ellis. The two were friends, and dated briefly, as

April 10, 2014 Philip Harris 1 Comment books, english, guest speaker, lecture, literature, toni morrison

On April 7th, Toni Morrison spoke to a packed house – so packed that many faculty were stranded outside, forced

March 27, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment book, Juan Pablo Villalobos, philip harris, quasaedilla

Faced with the spiritually truncating demands of modernity, the twentieth-century idealist, as described by André Breton in the “First Manifesto

Despairing of the writer’s condition under the Soviet Union, Mikhail Bulgakov burned the first draft of “The Master and Margarita”

January 20, 2014 Philip Harris 0 Comment Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus

Jonathan Franzen’s reception at Swarthmore last spring was lukewarm. He spoke fatalistically of the social impact of fiction and disavowed

In a very different world, today would be 5 December 92 p.s.U., or the fifth day of the twelfth month

November 21, 2013 Philip Harris books, death, god, Julian Barnes, life, Reviews

In 2011, Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for “The Sense of an Ending.” It was the first novel