All Literature Is Self-Help, and More
Dostoevsky and Flaubert had opposite styles and sensibilities. But they launched a joint assault on the 19th-century novel ... more »
It’s déclassé to browse the self-help section, but – as Sheila Heti points out – almost all literature is, secretly, self-help ... more »
It used to be that the CIA sounded genteel, patrician, transatlantic. Now there is a …