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Becca Rothfeld

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Why the American Novel Refused to Grow Up

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By Becca Rothfeld
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“He made chutzpah a literary form!” proclaims a blurb on the back cover of a collection of essays and stories by the literary critic and enfant terrible Leslie Fiedler. It is just the sort of affronting remark that Fiedler was known to venture, and there’s reason to suspect that he wrote the blurb himself; the telltale sign is that it concludes with his favorite jolt of punctuation.
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Why the American Novel Refused to Grow Up

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By Becca Rothfeld
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Leslie Aaron Fiedler was born in New Jersey in 1917, within fifteen years of his fellow-critics Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, yet he feels worlds apart from those decidedly postwar figures. They are creatures of the mid-century, whereas Fiedler belongs, in spirit, to the nineteen-sixties.
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Why “Yesteryear” Is Everywhere

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By Becca Rothfeld
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The premise of Caro Claire Burke’s best-selling début novel, “Yesteryear,” is a marvel. The book follows an influencer who rails against feminism and praises outmoded gender roles, only to find herself spirited back in time to 1855, where she must practice what she preaches.
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