Donald Antrim’s Rhetoric of Despair, and More

Why have personal narratives — essays, memoirs — displaced fiction? Vivian Gornick offers two explanations: the Holocaust and the demise of modernism ... more »

Donald Antrim’s rhetoric of despair: generic descriptions, repetitive adjectives, worn-out declarations. Somehow, it works ... more »

“Many of us today are in the grip of nostalgia for moral clari…