Tag: book review

Columns

Heteropessimism of the Intellect

Arielle Isack

April 25, 2025

On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment.

A Place of Wounds

William Giraldi

April 17, 2025

Being an American, Henry James knew, is “a complex fate.”

Fashionable Nonsense

Leif Weatherby

April 14, 2025

The enterprise of behavioral science is rotten to the core.

Schumer’s Warning

David Klion

March 31, 2025

Self-congratulation and willful ignorance in Chuck Schumer’s book on antisemitism.

What’s the Matter with Abundance?

Malcolm Harris

March 18, 2025

Don’t piss in a ditch and call it an ocean of lemonade.

Revenge of the Courtier

Andrew Holter

February 25, 2025

Curzio Malaparte was never an authentic dissident, only a shit-stirrer.

Perfecting the Art of Pedantry

Bailey Trela

February 20, 2025

Augusto Monterroso’s Rube Goldberg machine of self-critique.

Death Is Young

Bradley Babendir

February 19, 2025

Tove Jansson’s seniors are not going gentle into that good night.

The Volunteers of Death

Michael Barron

February 12, 2025

Oromay is is an intelligence leak filtered through a novel.

Abbey’s Road

David Schurman Wallace

January 08, 2025

Where are all the ecoterrorists?

We Owe Each Other Everything

Kaila Philo

December 18, 2024

A new book charts the rise, fall, and afterlife of Black Christian Nationalism.

Kicking an Open Door

Bruce Robbins

December 10, 2024

Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything?