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05 July 2025

The master of Go: On The MANIAC, 4

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  Novel-writing, like playing Go, is an art of assembly. The novelist compiles and assembles facts and artifacts. The novel has to be built...
20 June 2025

When we cease to tell the truth: On The MANIAC, 3

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  Seen from the outside, some stories have more truth than others, but the truth value of the story does not depend on its actual truth co...
15 June 2025

Factual fiction?: On The MANIAC, 2

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" Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet " was how W. G. Sebald titled the first of four parts of his prose work Vertigo (1990...
14 June 2025

Doomscrolling: On The MANIAC, 1

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  The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut (Penguin Press, 2023)   In her review of Benjamín Labatut's first book to come out in English – When ...
07 June 2025

Interview of A. (Author) by R. (Reader)

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Monstruo by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles I recently had an exclusive interview with Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (aka Ayer) about his sept...
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