Tag: book review

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Spoiling for a Fight

Tom Stevenson

December 07, 2021

American analysts wildly exaggerate the “Chinese Threat.”

Lord of the Flies

Max Pearl

November 17, 2021

Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.

Singing in Dark Times

Declan Ryan

August 23, 2021

Michael Robbins, between hope and despair.

Drug War Fables

Leo Schwartz

July 21, 2021

El Chapo is the face of a curiosity we cannot escape.

Old Master

Dustin Illingworth

June 02, 2021

On the life and afterlife of the Bernhardian monologue.

The Music Room

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

May 10, 2021

On loosing and finding Hindustani classical music.

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

April 29, 2021

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

London Calling

Daniel Trilling

March 31, 2021

A new book surveys London’s long history of immigration.

Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

March 24, 2021

On the intersection of race and caste.

Outside the Text

Andrew Marzoni

March 10, 2021

  A charming depressive with David Lynch hair and shirt collars unbuttoned to the nipple, Jackie “Jacques” Derrida was named after the child star of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid by middle-class Jewish parents in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1930. Thirty-seven ...

All Roads Lead to Beijing

Matthew Shen Goodman

February 24, 2021

Chinese infrastructure policy and its Western thinkers.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

February 23, 2021

Fifty Shades of Grey with Iowa MFA bona fides