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I'm excited to announce that my book "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" will be published by Knopf in March. It's a group biography of the New York School of Poets, centered on John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch.
i reviewed the new chang rae lee novel for the nyt: nytimes.com/2026/08/11/books…
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this movie is both recognizable in its pastiche (“a little sirk, a little showgirls, a little… well… 😊”) and like nothing else i’ve ever seen. i’m in awe
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wrote about the afterlife of VERTIGO, which some are calling “the OBSESSION of 1958” mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/p…
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discussing Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go under the auspices of the Toronto Public Library.
join joyce carol oates, @rmpanovka, and me tomorrow in a conversation about which commonwealth dystopian novel is more depressing!
eventbrite.ca/e/classic-twis…
revisiting Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go"--novel & film--for a panel discussion. what a very depressing novel!--beautifully spare, low-keyed & poetic.
so different from the dramatic terrain of Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" which in some ways it resembles.
I had forgotten how meekly submissive the "clone" characters are to their fate. this accounts for the extreme monochromatic despair of the novel while in Atwood there is plenty of resistance, plot.
two radically different explorations of dystopia.
Jane Hu retweeted
“The last and hardest lesson of The Chinese Tragedy of ‘King Lear’ is that surviving totalitarianism exacts a price in self-respect, even from the innocent.” —Catherine Nicholson go.nybooks.com/4nmgHUI
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The Fall 2025 issue is here! Featuring @xlorentzen @kukukadoo @meghanor @hermionehoby @bubblesdepot @HZeavin @hujane @leorobsonwriter and more . . .
bookforum.com/print/3202
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Wisp (aka Natalie Lu) is part of a new generation of young, mostly female artists who are taking shoegaze and making it even heavier. Read more about her on @SSENSE.
Interview by @hujane
Photos by Bradley J. Calder
ssense.com/en-us/editorial/c…
i wrote about yiyun li's devastating new memoir: newrepublic.com/article/1961…
mission impossible: the final reckoning... fabulously convoluted, so much exposition and re-exposition, an excess of backhistory, narrative continuity so extreme it feels borderline made up... a literal and figurative "fractured landscape," as adorno once said, Very Late Style...
Jane Hu retweeted
wow some of you are really unhealthily obsessed with tom cruise. it’s like you’re in a cult or something
Jane Hu retweeted
RIP Henry James you would have loved the story of an American from the Midwest who enters a world of European intrigue
