Contemporaries Essays

My Struggle , vol. 6: Stephanie, October 5

Cambridge, MA Dear friends, When Dan asked me if I wanted to write about My Struggle for Slow Burn, I told him I was only interested in writing about “the…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Dan, September 28

Denton, TX Dear friends, I think Book 6 is something new. My guiding theory of My Struggle so far was that Knausgaard’s technique of dilation, his extended description of every…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Omari, September 25

Salem, OR Dear all, Before we get to Hitler, I want to talk about literary theory. In my last letter to you, I was just beginning a new life on…

The Slow Burn: My Struggle

Edited by Dan Sinykin

My Struggle, vol. 6: Dan, September 18

Denton, Texas Dear friends, It’s been a minute. I last wrote on October 13, 2016. Since then, a few big, world-historical events have changed the context for Karl Ove Knausgaard’s…

Sex and the City: Andrea, August 30

Andrea Long Chu