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Stacked Time: On April Gibson’s “The Span of a Small Forever” and Alice Notley’s “Being Reflected Upon”
Heather Treseler reviews April Gibson’s “The Span of a Small Forever” and Alice Notley’s “Being Reflected Upon.”
Apr 27
A Transatlantic Metamorphosis: On Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists”
Ian Ellison reviews Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain.”
Apr 27
Toward a Genealogy of Fossil Capitalism: On Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Apr 26
Watching in L.A.: The Los Angeles Festival of Movies’ First Year
Ryan Coleman reports from the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
Apr 26
Respect Is Just a Minimum: On HBO Max’s “Rap Sh!t”
Alyx Vesey bemoans the cancellation of HBO Max’s series about a female hip-hop duo, “Rap Sh!t.”
Apr 25
Begin Again: On Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation”
Renee Hudson reviews Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites.”
Apr 24
War, Perpetuated: On Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence Is Mandatory”
Svetlana Satchkova reviews Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence Is Mandatory.”
Apr 24
Dirty Digits and “Pleasant Landscapes”: On Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism”
After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon...
Apr 23
Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness: On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things”
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”
Apr 22
What Scientists Can’t See: On Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot”
Robert P. Crease reviews Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.”
Apr 20
Recovering Worlds: On Mireille Gansel’s “Soul House”
Shoshana Olidort reviews Mireille Gansel’s “Soul House.”
Apr 20
Sweet Emptiness: On Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera”
Brittany Menjivar reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Apr 19
The Empty Spotlight: On Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera”
Dashiel Carrera reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Apr 19
Caught in the Middle: On Edward Said’s “Songs of an Eastern Humanist”
Manan Kapoor reviews “Songs of an Eastern Humanist” by Edward Said.
Apr 18
A Democratic and Peaceful Existence: On Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman’s “Taiwan”
Catherine Chou discusses “Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat” by Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman.
Apr 18
When Tolstoy Met Trollope: On Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story”
Bob Blaisdell reviews Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.”
Apr 17