Postmodernism
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The Worlds of Italo Calvino
Despite Calvino’s reputation as a postmodernist, his imagination was more in tune with pre-modern literary modes.
Shouts & Murmurs
Postmodernist Pirate Jokes
How do pirates like to communicate? Aye to aye! Back and forth, they grunt like this—interminably, senselessly, a silly little joke against Truth.
Page-Turner
The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec
The French writer—whose works include an approximately five-hundred-word palindrome, a novel without the letter “E,” and a book planned around the layout of an apartment block—was one of the most unusual of the twentieth century.
Culture Desk
Architecture’s King of Tradition
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Misery
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True Lives
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Off the Map
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The Unfolding
A Critic at Large
The Floating Library
Dancing
Think Pieces
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Love, Iranian Style
The Art World
Alien Emotions
A Critic at Large
Saved from Drowning
A Critic at Large
Melting Into Air
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The Aesthete
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