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Wikipedia and the Novel

Derogatory references to wiki-novels abound in contemporary literary criticism, as authors parade their characters’ pseudo-erudition. But might these be signs of an iPhone era ‘regime of perception’? Dazzling reconsideration of the relation between the novel and the encyclopaedia, from Sterne and Melville to Rachel Kushner and Sally Rooney.

Privatized Grand Narratives

Ryan Ruby on Carole Angier, Speak, Silence. An uneven life of the novelist W. G. Sebald. From post-war Bavaria to neoliberal Britain, a writer of which time?