August 14, 2019
On Capturing the Banality of History
In the first chapter of the sixth book of A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell’s twelve-book series chronicling upper-class English social life in the early twentieth century, […]
July 24, 2018
On the Comic Novel
Today, the idea of the “Comic Novel” feels largely archaic—something stuffy and British, a phrase uttered in an accent that died out by the 1940s. Obviously, funny novels continue to […]