Be the Alien: On Julio Torres’s “Problemista”
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
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Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
Lucy Hornby discusses two recent biographies about former Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Hua Guofeng.
James Ciano reviews Catherine Barnett’s “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space.”
Adam Fleming Petty reviews Lucas Mann’s “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performance,” rooting his analysis in his personal experience.
Margo Steines reviews Lucas Mann's “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances.”
“Exhalation: Stories” is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction, from an author whose star will only continue to rise.
Diana Heald reviews Suzanne Scanlon’s “Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen.”
Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor.”
Jessica Rizzo reviews David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.”
Ruth Joffre reviews Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark.”
Alice Courtright reviews Marie Howe’s “New and Selected Poems.”
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.”
Jamal Batts reviews Robeson Taj Frazier’s “KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell.”