Tim Groenland
Articles by Tim Groenland
2020
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World Literature
The Screen Went Blank
One of the consistent pleasures of Don DeLillo’s fiction is the sense of its author’s being attuned to frequencies of catastrophe that hum beneath the…
2018
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World Literature
Rediscovered Territory
In a reimagined continuation of the Huckleberry Finn story, Huck is a reluctant witness to the march of ‘sivilization’ as it rampages across America. His…
2016
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World Art / Culture
It Looks Like You’re Writing a Novel
Home computing and word processing are now so taken for granted that it’s hard to recreate how big a deal their first appearance was. One…
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World History
The Polish Rising
In August 1944, Germany was retreating before the Red Army while in the west the liberation of France had begun. Polish patriots thought the time…
2013
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World Literature
Lost in the Funhouse
Nabokov’s masterpiece still occasionally has to be defended against the charge that it uses a high-art modernist veneer to excuse pornographic pleasures. In fact it…
2012
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A Ghost is Born
In a new biography, David Foster Wallace mostly emerges as a sympathetic figure, a troubled man whose fearsome intelligence seemed only to exponentially increase his…
2011
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My Words, Your Words
It seems simplistic, though, to view the work simply as the act of a bullying editor taking advantage of a struggling writer; the evidence suggests…