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Fiction in Review: “Hotel de Dream” by Edmund White

R. Clifton Spargo
July 1, 2008
From the Archives

The Mask of Art

Edmund White
April 1, 1999
Essays

What Is a Poetic Novel?

A newly translated manifesto
Hélène Bessette,
translated by Kate Briggs
September 8, 2025
Essays

How Mrs. Dalloway Began

Slipping into Virginia Woolf’s sentences
Edmund de Waal
September 8, 2025
From the Archives

On Some Functions of Literature

Umberto Eco,
translated by Martin McLaughlin
October 1, 2004
Essay of the Week

How Sober Should a Writer Be?

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the ambivalence of American drinking culture
Sloane Crosley
October 6, 2025
From the Archives

The Writer’s Audience

Wallace Stegner
January 1, 2003
Black-and-white photo of Susan Brownmiller with a copy of her book Against Our Will
Essay of the Week

The Book That Changed How We Think About Rape

Fifty years on, what lessons endure from Against Our Will?
Claire Bond Potter
November 10, 2025
Essay of the Week

Who Was the Foodie?

What it would mean to take taste seriously again
Alicia Kennedy
November 17, 2025
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995
Books

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
December 15, 2025