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“In the work of [Mathias Énard], one comes to expect certain things: historical details, geopolitical thinking, elevated, sometimes baroque prose, intoxicants, violence, voluptuous solitude, troubled personal affairs, and a manifold sensuality.”
Christopher Byrd (@Chris_Byrd) on Mathias Énard’s dizzyingly beautiful novels go.nybooks.com/4uBSyNA
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10/15 at 6pm: Mathias Énard in conversation with Christopher Byrd at Villa Albertine, NYC
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Parce que les jeux vidéo font partie de notre culture, nous allons créer un festival international du jeu vidéo.
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Pedro Costa's speech today at Venice upon receiving the Bresson Prize
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RT @DarrenAronofsky: is this the last masterpiece made solely with human intelligence?
who else is expecting to shut down two weeks of…
who else is expecting to shut down two weeks of…
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It’s time to let the secret out. In July, I traveled to Scotland to interview the studio heads of Rockstar Games about Grand Theft Auto VI. 💥
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This is gonna be good: centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…
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What a delight to see Alina's prompt, just as I began to think of my next project!
For me, the avant-garde can be so demonstrably revolutionary, that we cannot easily recall what was previously standard. My personal canon inspires me with revolutions in tone, style, and form.
For me, the avant-garde can be so demonstrably revolutionary, that we cannot easily recall what was previously standard. My personal canon inspires me with revolutions in tone, style, and form.
William Gass' "permanent avant-garde" included the Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Henry James, Kafka, Joyce. Who would you add? Or who is on your avant-garde canon?
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“In multiple cases, contractors I spoke to told me that within months of their position being eliminated, they saw their exact role listed for hire again on one or multiple job websites.”
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For @thebafflermag, I reviewed William T. Vollmann's four-volume, 3000+ page novel A Table for Fortune: thebaffler.com/latest/you-who…
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I wrote about Pathologic 2 and 3, two of the most intellectually stimulating and artistically accomplished video games of the past decade for @nytimes: nytimes.com/2026/07/10/art…
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"pretentious" is the word the unambitious wield at the ambitious.
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My book about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is published today by @yalepress!
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An excellent piece that gets it right from the first sentence: “Reading Mathias Énard, one doesn’t sense any anxiety about the fate of the novel.”
@Chris_Byrd on Énard in @nybooks
@Chris_Byrd on Énard in @nybooks
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