Tag: book review

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You Who Forsake the Lord

Michael Barron

June 09, 2026

William T. Vollmann charts the rise, ruin, and refashioning of America.

Society of the Spectacle

Stephen Piccarella

May 28, 2026

Missouri Williams’s hall of mirrors.

Boy Girl Problems

Grace Byron

May 20, 2026

It’s a losing game to be understood by cis people.

Beneath the Paving Stones, the River

Alex Tan

May 15, 2026

Plotlessness is political.

Tabula Raza

Corinne Leong

May 13, 2026

What comes after Asian American literature?

The Culture We Deserve

Janna Shaftan

April 30, 2026

The only thing that can be preserved is what we hold onto past the point of reason.

Red Noir

Harilaos Stecopoulos

April 28, 2026

Sensitivity to the downtrodden informs the work collected in the new edition of Jim Thompson’s oeuvre.

A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist

Adrian Nathan West

April 23, 2026

This offers itself as revelation.

Vigilante Injustice

Charlotte Rosen

April 15, 2026

Two books revisit the Bernie Goetz shooting.

What’s in a Name?

Nico Taylor

April 14, 2026

“Ain’t that so? You never never know.”

They Came to See Us Suffer

Charlie Tyson

April 09, 2026

In the influencer novel, the work is the pain.

Frothing Mad

Max Kiefel

April 07, 2026

Radicalized by the betrayal of a meritocratic promise.