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D. W. White

Ambition and Artistry in “Life Is Everywhere” – Chicago Review of Books

Ambition and Artistry in “Life Is Everywhere” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 10, 2022 by D. W. White
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From the Latin ambitiō, by way of the Old French, across the Channel and the centuries through the Middle English, and finally to the modern … Read More

Character and History in “The Village Idiot” – Chicago Review of Books

Character and History in “The Village Idiot” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsSeptember 19, 2022 by D. W. White
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In the protean landscape of contemporary fiction, the historical novel is among those having something of a moment. Given the literary world’s apparently endless quest … Read More

The Unlikeable Character Paradox in “Sedating Elaine” – Chicago Review of Books

The Unlikeable Character Paradox in “Sedating Elaine” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 13, 2022 by D. W. White
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There is a rather odd aversion to the “unlikeable” character in the novel, as if fiction is to cloak itself in the sunny vestments of … Read More

Life, Art, and Fiction in “Love” – Chicago Review of Books

Life, Art, and Fiction in “Love” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 11, 2022 by D. W. White
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For all the antagonizing, ruminating, and even moralizing that comes with defining the parameters of literary fiction, perhaps the one point of (near-) universal agreement … Read More

Satire and Superfluity in “The Swells” – Chicago Review of Books

Satire and Superfluity in “The Swells” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJanuary 5, 2022 by D. W. White
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Among the most ancient and revered forms, which the amorphous siren known as prose may assume, is that of satire, used for millennia to critique, … Read More

Metafiction and Convention in “The Women I Love” – Chicago Review of Books

Metafiction and Convention in “The Women I Love” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsDecember 7, 2021 by D. W. White
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​​Van Gogh’s self-portraits are among his most famous and beloved works; presidential autobiographies fly off the shelves when they inexorably appear a year out of … Read More

Point of View and Literary Ancestry in “White on White” – Chicago Review of Books

Point of View and Literary Ancestry in “White on White” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsNovember 30, 2021 by D. W. White
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An interesting, if somewhat recondite, corner of the great novelistic universe is the study of literary ancestry:where a work comes from, what it grows from, … Read More

The Unadorned Grace of “Agatha of Little Neon” – Chicago Review of Books

The Unadorned Grace of “Agatha of Little Neon” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsAugust 2, 2021 by D. W. White
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A common refrain in the teaching of the craft of writing, to whatever extent that can in fact be done, is that one’s form and … Read More

Temporal Distance in “Nobody, Somebody, Anybody” – Chicago Review of Books

Temporal Distance in “Nobody, Somebody, Anybody” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJuly 6, 2021 by D. W. White
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Among the great and hidden challenges of past tense, first-person narration—and one that, while seemingly omnipresent in contemporary fiction, is seldom discussed—is fixing the temporal … Read More

Uniting Form and Function in “With Teeth” – Chicago Review of Books

Uniting Form and Function in “With Teeth” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJune 3, 2021 by D. W. White
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For all the ink shed—in reviews, interviews, and criticism—about the trials and tribulations of navigating the literary world on the level of the individual novel, … Read More

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