Literary Canon

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Zadie Smith Reads Mostly Women. The Interesting Part Is Why That's Still News.

Zadie Smith told an audience she reads mostly women. A brief statement — but one worth sitting with. On canon, attention, and the parts of the library that were always there.

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Is Prestige Fiction Dead? That Depends on Who You Ask

A recent essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books conducts what it calls a 'depressing literary autopsy' of prestige fiction's decline. But before the funeral, it's worth asking: prestige for whom?