The Banks of the Jordan

“When I did force my way down to the river side, I found that the water ran so rapidly, and that the bushes and boughs of trees grew so far over and into the stream, as to make it impossible

The Voysey Inheritance

While reading Hard Cash, I was reminded of the Granville-Barker play, The Voysey Inheritance. Although written over 40 years after Hard Cash was published, the play deals with the same issues of financial ruin, the family, and encroaching insanity. In

Jordan Stein’s “Silly Theory”

Jordan Stein’s “Silly Theory” gives us a very different version of the social experience of theory, or theory’s reception than does the Nicolas Dames piece Danielle posted – interesting to compare them.

Dames on the “Theory Generation”

Here is the Nick Dames essay in N + 1 on the “Theory Generation.” True, the argument that we can trace the ideas of writers like Jonathan Franzen or Jeffrey Eugenides to their theory-immersed Liberal Arts days in the early 1980’s is