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I wrote about Chris Kraus's new novel (not very good, sorry), her lasting influence, and the aesthetic dimension of her landlordism—something played up in her recent work. Autofiction becomes autopay? Enjoy

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I Love Rent | David Schurman Wallace
More than ever, we live in Chris Kraus’s world, even as we feel it exhausting itself.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For the NYRB, I wrote about Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, a once-neglected modernist monolith and the 20th century's top opium fever dream. My thoughts on what makes it both fascinating and frustrating, as well as the phenomenon of the Great Big Novel.

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Road to Nowhere | David Schurman Wallace
Marguerite Young’s cult novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling springs from the supposedly mundane diners and bus depots of Young’s native Indiana, but eschews any stable sense of reality.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Late summer special: for The Paris Review, I wrote about Going to the Shakespeare Festival.

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At the Shakespeare Festival by David Schurman Wallace
September 10, 2025 – “Regional theater, man.”
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September 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about the poetry of Natalie Shapero and its midnight-dark humor.

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Cough Up the Pill | Los Angeles Review of Books
David Schurman Wallace reviews Natalie Shapero’s new collection “Stay Dead.”
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September 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Nearly everyone praises W.G. Sebald, but by the same turn the way people talk about him is a bit boring: a received idea. Reading his early essays, I tried to think about him—his influences, his strangeness—from the beginning. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Before Sebald Was Great
By looking at his early work, we can better understand who the German writer was beyond his persona as the melancholy intellectual and serious man of letters.
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July 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
For INQUE, I wrote a bit about retrofuturism—how we look back into the past to look forward—from Edward Bellamy to Philip K. Dick. Every day I think it's a more important category, as blurry history assists our failures of imagination.
July 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I wrote about Joe Brainard, poet, painter, and darling of 1960s and 1970s NYC counterculture. It made me think about a simple, if increasingly difficult question: whom do we make art for? www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard
The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
There is a poem I wrote in the Yale Review. Thanks! yalereview.org/article/davi...
David Schurman Wallace: “The New Politics”
A poem by David Schurman Wallace: “I don’t remember what / we learned in school: to weave / a net was not in our lesson plan”
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March 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I wrote about the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth. And about repetition, plot ("trauma" or otherwise), and how the contemporary novel might rise to the challenges of love.

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Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love
In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life.
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February 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I wrote about ecoterror in fiction and film, from Edward Abbey to Rachel Kushner's latest. It's a wide-ranging piece—I'm trying to understand something about the gaps between environmental crisis, violence, and the way we depict both. Anyway, enjoy! thebaffler.com/latest/abbey...
Abbey’s Road | David Schurman Wallace
Real-world ecoterrorists are outnumbered by their representations in fiction and film. Why does reality lag behind the image?
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January 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM