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Let me be blunt: Subtlety sucks. This statement might anger you. Most of us take for granted that subtlety, in the arts, is a virtue. You can see it in our critical language: It’s common to say that a book or movie lacks subtlety—the implication being...

An entire book devoted to a pedantic literary tiff that flared fifty years ago? Fear not. The Feud, Alex Beam’s lively post-mortem on the friendship between two titans of twentieth-century literature — Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson — is a deliciously...

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Elena Ferrante’s Run-ons by Christopher Warley Like very many people, I have become a huge fan of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s novels.  Ferrante, in case you haven’t heard, has become an international phenomenon.  She has acquired a certain...

WHEN SEATED on panels with his fellow writers, the Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk has been known to draw sketches of interesting faces in the audience. Like his prose, the sketches are neither too farcical nor too earnest, but endlessly curious...