Tag: criticism

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Sister, Sister

Jessica Fletcher

May 20, 2025

Were the Paget twins really unjustly overlooked?

W.A.S.T.E. Not

Madeleine Adams

May 15, 2025

A​​ll civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear.

Small Fry

Walker Rutter-Bowman

May 07, 2025

Like treated beef, Claire Baglin’s novel is a lean, finely textured thing.

Ideology Ruled Her Camera

Nihal El Aasar

May 05, 2025

On Heiny Srour’s revolutionary women.

A Place of Wounds

William Giraldi

April 17, 2025

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

Kafka in Kurdish

Matt Broomfield

April 11, 2025

Burhan Sönmez goes “home” to his native language.

Whaling Upwards

Oscar Dorr

March 12, 2025

A new whaling novel finds the beastly in the everyday.

Down with the Ship

The Baffler

December 27, 2024

The Baffler looks back in anger at 2024.

Codes of Silence

Jack Sheehan

December 20, 2024

Say Nothing is a salvo in a history war that long predates it.

Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare

Benjamin Balthaser

November 21, 2024

Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism is a conscious throwback to Cold War liberalism.

A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis

Apoorva Tadepalli

November 19, 2024

Fictionalizing the Modi era.

Bookselling Out

Dan Sinykin

October 16, 2024

How should a bookstore be?