Jess Bergman

Author Archive

  • December 4, 2024
    In Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel, Private Citizens, Will, a computer programmer, wonders “whether masturbating to porn was an art form: not as ‘erotica’ or...
  • September 25, 2024
    Sally Rooney has become known as a novelist of love, youth, and the combination thereof. Her characters come together as they come of age, in novels that combine romance with heady...
  • July 4, 2024
    In Honoré de Balzac’s 1831 story “The Unknown Masterpiece,” the young artist Nicolas Poussin presents himself at the studio of Porbus, a seventeenth-century...
  • March 18, 2024
    In the halcyon days of the mid-2010s, when Barack Obama was president, Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, and Harvey Weinstein’s crimes remained the stuff of rumor, the...