Katelyn Doyle

Death Comics, Sex Tourism, and Chuck Norris

Every December, Houghton Mifflin's Best American series comes through with its fix for finicky readers, distilling the finest of all the past year's literary endeavors into anthologies packaged by

By Gizem Orbey, Paul Barndt, Katelyn Doyle, Madeleine Compagnon, Caitlin Halpern, and Alexandria Symonds | Jan 22 12:00 am ET

Eggers' Activist Novel Seeks The What In Sudan's Heartbreak

Once upon a time, long before civil war, Darfur, genocide, and diaspora, God spoke to the Dinka people of Sudan and gave them a choice.

By Katelyn Doyle | Nov 16 12:00 am ET

Post-Soviet Russia Gets Laughs and Tears in Absurdistan

During its first few weeks in session, Columbia-and college in general-is a place of unchecked appetites, cheerful corruption, and nervous undercurrents.

By Katelyn Doyle | Sep 5 12:00 am ET

Paglia's Advice to Academia: Break, Blow, Burn

If one detail about Camille Paglia, author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture, explains why she operates the way she does, it is this: when I spoke to her on the phone about her

By Katelyn Doyle | Feb 27 12:00 am ET

Nabokov Saved My Lit Hum Grade

The first semester of my first year, the closest thing I had to an English class was Lit Hum, and the closest thing I had to pleasure reading was an occasional New Yorker purchased in fits of defia

By Katelyn Doyle | Dec 12 12:00 am ET

Fall's Gloom and Doom

This grim year in literature - a year that as yet boasts no break-out bestseller or buzzed about gem - has yet to find a runaway hit like last year's Gilead.

By Katelyn Doyle | Sep 12 12:00 am ET

Academic Standards--or the Big Win?

With admissions rates rapidly shrinking and yield rates noticeably rising at top schools across the United States, the question of who will and will not be afforded one of the much coveted places i

By Katelyn Doyle | Oct 6 12:00 am ET

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