Articles

Reviews

• Arne De Boever on All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly December 8th, 2011

  “The Return of the Gods”

• Walter Benn Michaels on What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren June 13th, 2011

  “Black and White”

• Diana Wagman on Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir by Margaux Fragoso June 17th, 2011

  “The Pervert's Point of View”

• Chris Kraus and Chris Kraus on Simone Weil by Palle Yourgrau May 31st, 2011

  “Posthumous”

• Jon Wiener on How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism by Eric Hobsbawm November 4th, 2011

  “The Age of Revolution”

• Susan Olding on The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay by Carl H. Klaus September 23rd, 2011

  “Getting Personal”

• Susan Salter Reynolds on Dogma by and March 24th, 2012

  “Discoveries: Lars Iyer”

• Maggie Nelson on The Weather in Proust by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick January 13th, 2012

  “Finishing Touches”

• William Flesch on and by and October 4th, 2011

  “Liberalism in Flight”

• Lauren Walsh on Believing Is Seeing by Errol Morris May 20th, 2012

  “Take A Picture: On Errol Morris's "Believing Is Seeing"”

• William Giraldi on America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano May 21st, 2012

  “Eden of Clowns”

• David Winters on The Faith of the Faithless by Simon Critchley May 25th, 2012

  “The Secularist's Dogma”

• David Wolf on Zona and Noriko Smiling by Geoff Dyer and Adam Mars-Jones June 3rd, 2012

  “Unprecedented Attentiveness”

• Lisa Levy on As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh by Susan Sontag June 6th, 2012

  “Cogito Ergo Boom: Susan Sontag's Journals”

• Zeke Turner on A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus June 8th, 2012

  “Pilgrims Digress”

• Lindsay Reckson on Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey June 19th, 2012

  “Crying in Public”

• Eric Been on I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Mark Dery June 21st, 2012

  “This American Gothic”

• James Guida on Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto and The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari July 5th, 2012

  “The Delightful is Useful”

• Robert Zaretsky on Albert Camus: Solitude & Solidarity by Catherine Camus July 18th, 2012

  “A Man Apart”

• Andrew Scull on All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield August 8th, 2012

  “Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis”

• Julia Lupton on Blog Theory by Jodi Dean August 13th, 2012

  “Whatever Being”

• Anneleen Masschelein on The Memory of Place by Dylan Trigg August 17th, 2012

  “Flesh World: On the New Uncanny”

• Joshua Mostafa on Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk August 21st, 2012

  “Sphere Theory: A Case For Connectedness”

• Bruce Robbins on The Crisis of the European Union: A Response by Jürgen Habermas September 20th, 2012

  “Europe on the Brink: Habermas and the Currency Crisis ”

• Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover on The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings by Alain Badiou September 24th, 2012

  “History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings”

• Jonathan Yudelman on The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony September 28th, 2012

  “Ending the War between Athens and Jerusalem”

• Adam Morris on Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by and September 30th, 2012

  “Drone Warfare: Tiqqun, the Young-Girl and the Imperialism of the Trivial”

• Rebecca Ariel Porte on Our Aesthetic Categories by Sianne Ngai October 14th, 2012

  “The Zany, the Cute, and the Interesting: On Ngai's "Our Aesthetic Categories"”

• Peli Grietzer on Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing by Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin October 12th, 2012

  “The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing”

• Colin Dickey on Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise by Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec October 21st, 2012

  “On the Trail of the Elusive Vampire Squid from Hell”

• Dylan J. Montanari on Love's Vision by Troy Jollimore November 2nd, 2012

  “Seeing Through Love: A Philosopher’s Vision”

• Hawa Allan on Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon by Kathryn Lofton November 4th, 2012

  “Vacare Oprah: The Gospel of O”

• Malcolm Harris on Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott November 7th, 2012

  “Anarchish: James C. Scott’s “Two Cheers for Anarchism””

• Olivia Harrison on Parting Ways by Judith Butler December 9th, 2012

  “Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other”

• Casey Shoop on The Deliverance of Others by David Palumbo-Liu December 12th, 2012

  “Too Much Otherness?: The Ethics of Reading in the Global Age”

• Stephen Muecke on Enquête sur les modes d'existence by Bruno Latour December 28th, 2012

  “'I am what I am attached to': On Bruno Latour’s 'Inquiry into the Modes of Existence'”

• Lisa Levy on Missing Out by Adam Phillips January 22nd, 2013

  “Fantasies of Understanding: Adam Phillips’s "Missing Out"”

• Patrick Jagoda on The Interface Effect by Alexander R. Galloway January 25th, 2013

  “The Next Level: Alexander R. Galloway’s “The Interface Effect””

• David Morris on Exodus, Dogma and Spurious by Lars Iyer January 29th, 2013

  “Stupid Men in Moldy Flats: On Lars Iyer's Trilogy”

• David Winters on Dying for Time by Martin Hägglund February 5th, 2013

  “Terror and Beauty: Martin Hägglund’s "Dying for Time"”

• Elissa Marder and Andrew Parker on The Theorist’s Mother and The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Andrew Parker and Elissa Marder February 28th, 2013

  “The Maternal Turn: Elissa Marder and Andrew Parker”

• Nick Holdstock on The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu by Sven Lindqvist March 3rd, 2013

  “The Art of Escape: On Sven Lindqvist's "The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu"”

• Kas Saghafi on Derrida by Benoît Peeters March 30th, 2013

  “A Matter of Rhythm: Benoît Peeters’s “Derrida: A Biography””

• Brian Kim Stefans on Weird Realism by Graham Harman April 6th, 2013

  “Let’s Get Weird: On Graham Harman’s H.P. Lovecraft”

• Joseph Henry on Practical Aesthetics by Jill Bennett April 7th, 2013

  “Feelings and Forms: Jill Bennett’s "Practical Aesthetics"”

• Zach Dorfman on The Undivided Past by David Cannadine April 8th, 2013

  “The String in the Maze: On What It Means to Be Human”

• Jonathan Arac on Post-Postmodernism by Jeffrey T. Nealon April 13th, 2013

  “Jameson Redux: Jeffrey T. Nealon’s “Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism””

• Eric Hayot on Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World and The Other Face of the Moon by Claude Levi-Strauss and Claude Levi-Strauss April 14th, 2013

  “Through the Mirror: Claude Lévi-Strauss in Japan”

• Adam Morris on Cypherpunks by Julian Assange April 28th, 2013

  “Fair Warning: Julian Assange's "Cypherpunks"”

• Marina Petrova on Why Does The World Exist? by Jim Holt May 4th, 2013

  “Why Does the World Exist?: Jim Holt's "Existential Detective Story"”

• David Auerbach on Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem May 13th, 2013

  “Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae"”

• Simon Critchley on The Silence of Animals by John Gray June 2nd, 2013

  “John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On "The Silence of Animals"”

• McKenzie Wark on The Bourgeois and Distant Reading by Franco Moretti and Franco Moretti June 5th, 2013

  “The Engine Room of Literature: On Franco Moretti”

• Colin Dickey on The Summits of Modern Man by Peter H. Hansen June 9th, 2013

  “Peak Adventure: On Mountaineering and the Enlightenment”

• N. Katherine Hayles on Rewiring the Real by Mark C. Taylor June 15th, 2013

  “Rewiring Literary Criticism”

Essays

• The Death of the Book by Ben Ehrenreich April 18th, 2011
• Theaters of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson July 8th, 2011
• Autumn of the Empire by Joshua Clover July 18th, 2011
• Life is Short; Art is Shorter by David Shields May 2nd, 2011
• Advertisements for Norman Mailer by Jonathan Lethem October 3rd, 2011
• The Natural by Marjorie Perloff November 2nd, 2011
• Marilynne Robinson and the Miraculous Privilege of Existence by Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu May 22nd, 2012
• Sculpting in Time: Geoff Dyer on Tarkovsky by Jacob Mikanowski July 12th, 2012
• Reading in Prison: 'The Art of War' as Survival Guide by Michael Krikorian September 9th, 2012
• In Search of Lost Plots: On Viktor Shklovsky by Jonathan Foltz October 24th, 2012
• Philosophy as an Art of Living by Costica Bradatan November 14th, 2012
• How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of Life by Lisa Levy May 11th, 2013