Tag: book review

Columns

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?

No Ordinary Joe

Daniel Felsenthal

November 26, 2024

In his selected letters, Joe Brainard reveals the human behind the saint.

Knowers of Ball

Leif Weatherby

October 23, 2024

Innovation has come for the NFL.

Behind the Wheel of a Large Automobile

Dan Albert

October 17, 2024

Someone help the car guys. They’re in crisis.

Teenage Dreams

Dustin Illingworth

October 10, 2024

Ungovernable change and unexpected grace in the graphic novels of Charles Burns.