Author Profiles

Biographical and critical profiles of contemporary and recent authors — readings of the life through the work and of the work through the life, attempting neither to flatten the writing into autobiography nor to ignore the conditions in which it was made.

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Author Profiles

Lydia Davis and the Limits of the Very Short Form

Davis's very short stories — sometimes a sentence, sometimes a paragraph — have made her one of the most influential American prose…

Edmund Whitfield May 11, 2026 9 min read

Author Profiles

Mavis Gallant in the Archive: A Profile Through the Letters and the Notebooks

The Gallant correspondence and notebooks at the University of Toronto have been open to researchers for some years, and they reveal a…

Edmund Whitfield May 11, 2026 7 min read