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Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood: On Miranda July’s “All Fours”
Jenessa Abrams reviews Miranda July’s “All Fours.”
Criticism
Pull the Red Thread: On Alice Rohrwacher’s “La chimera”
Greta Rainbow reviews Alice Rohrwacher’s film “La chimera.”
How Anecdotes Sell Drugs: On the 30th Anniversary Edition of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”
Andrew Scull critiques the cultural influence of Peter Kramer’s 1993 book “Listening to Prozac.”
A More Camouflaged Colony: On Margaret M. Power’s “Solidarity Across the Americas”
Emiliano Aguilar reviews Margaret M. Power’s “Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism."
All of This, My Dear Sir, Is Surrealism: On Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters”
Anna Levett reviews Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters.”
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From the Archive
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The Technologies That Remake Us: On Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation: Stories”
“Exhalation: Stories” is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction, from an author whose star will only continue to rise.
The Fiction of Rational Miracles: On Amit Chaudhuri’s NYRB Classics Reissues
Saikat Majumdar reviews NYRB Classics’ rerelease of Amit Chaudhuri’s first three books.
Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood: On Miranda July’s “All Fours”
Jenessa Abrams reviews Miranda July’s “All Fours.”
Learning Uncertainty: On Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris”
Madeleine Crum reviews Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories.”
Rooting in the Dirt: On Robert Aquinas McNally’s “Cast Out of Eden”
Andrew Graybill reviews Robert Aquinas McNally’s “Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness.”
Scars Prove You Lived: On Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake”
Justin Wigard reviews Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake.”
True Fictionalizations: On Angie Sijun Lou’s “Dark Soil” Anthology
David Lewis reviews the new anthology “Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies,” edited by Angie Sijun Lou.
Who Tells the Stories of Chinese Leaders? On Two New Biographies
Lucy Hornby discusses two recent biographies about former Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Hua Guofeng.
Company in the Void: On Catherine Barnett’s “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space”
James Ciano reviews Catherine Barnett’s “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space.”
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