Fiction Archives - Middlebrowse

Review: Sarah Thankam Mathews (2022) All This Could Be Different. Viking.

Post author:Cain S. Pinto
Post published:October 21, 2022
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Sarah Thankam Mathew’s All This Could be Different has been marketed, and widely reviewed, as a novel in which electric prose serves a calling higher than the merely aesthetic. The prose here is au courant, fluent in the meme-inflected argot of the relatively young extremely online reader, and exemplary of the transparent, personality-effacing style of writers coming out of MFA programs.

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Review: Blake Bailey (2021) Philip Roth: The Biography, Skyhorse Publishing.

Post author:Cain S. Pinto
Post published:July 16, 2022
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Blake Bailey's Philip Roth biography has something for everyone: it satisfies the reader who wants to relive the rapture of reading Roth at his best, the literary dilettante who wants to bone up on dinner table banter about notable priapic penpushers, and aspiring heirs to Roth’s ballpoint sceptre.

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Review: Jonathan Franzen (2021) Crossroads. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Post author:Cain S. Pinto
Post published:January 9, 2022
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In "Crossroads" Jonathan Franzen flaunts his complete abandonment of any pretence to style; substance and form have fought each other, and substance stands undefeated, gloating, on the corpse of form.

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