Taylor Antrim is fiction critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
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Fiction Wrestles With Global Terrorism
Taylor Antrim applauds Lorraine Adams' stellar new novel for being even better than nonfiction at... MORE
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Why Some Memoirs Are Better As Fiction
Two new memoirs raise a perennial problem—sometimes fiction is truer and more powerful than any... MORE
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Great Reads for the Holidays
In the midst of all the holiday craziness, are you looking for a good book to curl up with?... MORE
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Velvet Underground Reunites!
In a rare public appearance, Lou Reed and other members of the iconic band gathered to talk about... MORE
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3 Great Reads for Thanksgiving
Looking for some appropriate post-tryptophan entertainment?... MORE
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America's Pop Culture Savant
Taylor Antrim on why Chuck Klosterman’s latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, shows him as pop-culture... MORE
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Freestyle Fatherhood
Taylor Antrim speaks with Simon Carr about his moving memoir, The Boys Are Back, and how he... MORE
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Gene Hackman's War
Retired from acting, Gene Hackman has scripted a second act for himself as a novelist.... MORE
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Quick Reads for the Asylum
Following his psycho-thriller debut with a collection of stories about extreme anxiety and... MORE
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Summer of Our White Male Discontent
The American white male may be in decline, says Taylor Antrim, but judging from three new books,... MORE
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A Vile Love Triangle
In Nick Laird’s sharp new novel, Glover’s Mistake, not one of the main characters would make good... MORE
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Plenty of Time 'Til Doomsday
Ron Currie, Jr.'s rambunctious new Everything Matters!... MORE
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The Great New York Novel
With echoes of Wolfe, Doctorow, and DeLillo, Colum McCann's mesmerizing Let the Great World Spin is... MORE
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The Squid and the Whale of a Book
With his ambitious fourth novel about a family of oddball Chicago scientists, Joe Meno swings for... MORE
