Articles

Reviews

• Michele Pridmore-Brown on Our Fathers, Ourselves by Peggy Drexler December 16th, 2011

  “The Girl with the Father Tattoo”

• Jon Cotner on The Chairs Are Where the People Go by Sheila Heti and Misha Glouberman December 20th, 2011

  “Philosophical Improvisations”

• Rosten Woo on Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux December 14th, 2011

  “The Right Fit: Nicholas de Monchaux's "Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo"”

• Michele Pridmore-Brown on How Many Friends Does One Person Need? by Robin Dunbar May 24th, 2011

  “Social Darwinism”

• Cameron Shaw on L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints and Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 by Connie Rogers Tilton and Kellie Jones December 22nd, 2011

  “Object Relations”

• David Yourdon on The Puzzle of Left-handedness by Rik Smits December 7th, 2011

  “Southpaw Grammar”

• Dana Buntrock on Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture: Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro by Ishimoto Yasuhiro July 7th, 2011

  “The Eyes Think”

• N.S. Morris on Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East by Reza Aslan July 21st, 2011

  “Lighting Darkened Corners”

• Nikil Saval on Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit July 28th, 2011

  “Mapping the Bay Area ”

• Eli Jelly-Schapiro on Cultures of War by John W. Dower August 1st, 2011

  “Days of Infamy ”

• Grace Krilanovich on Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California by Dewar MacLeod August 4th, 2011

  “Ambush Haircuts”

• Mike McGonigal on Retromania by Simon Reynolds January 9th, 2012

  “Pop Will Meet Itself: Simon Reynolds's "Retromania"”

• Sholeh Wolpe on The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik August 25th, 2011

  “Losing Face”

• Jonathan Foltz on The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s by Malcolm Turvey August 15th, 2011

  “Even as Everything Melts ”

• David Roth on 21 by Wilfred Santiago January 9th, 2012

  “Household Saint”

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

  “Black and White”

• Ibrahim N. Abusharif on Desert Encounter by Knud Holmboe June 21st, 2011

  “Libya, 1931”

• Merrill Markoe on Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean October 10th, 2011

  “Dog Poetry”

• Kate Merkel-Hess on The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past and Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000 by Gail Hershatter and Jacob Eyferth October 12th, 2011

  “Country People”

• Mikel Dunham on Between Parentheses by Roberto Bolaño October 19th, 2011

  “The Apocalyptic Tradition”

• Stephanie Elizondo Griest on Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy May 26th, 2011

  “Narcocorridos”

• John Romano on Civilization by Niall Ferguson February 17th, 2012

  “Culture War”

• Franklin Bruno on Listening and Longing by Daniel Cavicchi January 24th, 2012

  “Gilded Age Fan Club: Daniel Cavicchi's "Listening and Longing"”

• Sara Jaffe on White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay January 23rd, 2012

  “Guilty of Being White”

• Eric Been on Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan February 10th, 2012

  “Everywhere and Nowhere”

• Colin Dickey on Digging Up the Dead by Michael Kammen November 27th, 2011

  “We Will Re-Bury You”

• Susan Salter Reynolds on Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan January 7th, 2012

  “Discoveries: John Jeremiah Sullivan”

• Maura Elizabeth Cunningham on Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews October 12th, 2011

  “In the Ghetto”

• Maria Bustillos on Magic Hours by Tom Bissell April 18th, 2012

  “Abnegation”

• Glen Roven on The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross February 1st, 2012

  “The Pleasures of Listening”

• Mary Cuddehe on The Femicide Machine by Sergio González Rodríguez May 4th, 2012

  “The Most Dangerous Place in the Western Hemisphere”

• Susan Salter Reynolds on Magic Hours by Tom Bissell May 6th, 2012

  “Invisibility Act”

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

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

• 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”

• Emily Douglas on The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman June 8th, 2012

  “Intellectual Property”

• Lauren Elkin on Beyond the Tower by John Marriott June 16th, 2012

  “A Redemptive History of East London”

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

  “This American Gothic”

• Cécile Alduy on The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Élisabeth Badinter August 5th, 2012

  “The Organic-Zucchini-Baby-Food-Mixing Streamline Mommy”

• 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”

• Hannah Gersen on The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn by Robert Anasi August 7th, 2012

  “Brooklyn Agonistes”

• William Flesch on The Magic of Reality and Pathological Altruism by Richard Dawkins and Barbara Oakley August 19th, 2012

  “Paradoxes of Altruism in the Digital Age”

• Eli Diner on In Wonderland by Ilene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq August 23rd, 2012

  “Surrealist Afterlives: on LACMA's "In Wonderland"”

• Stan Persky on Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg August 30th, 2012

  “'The candles will blow themselves out': The Richard Brautigan Saga”

• Chris Lehmann on Mortality by Christopher Hitchens September 2nd, 2012

  “Dispatches From 'Tumorland': On Christopher Hitchens' 'Mortality'”

• Ian Scheffler on The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore September 3rd, 2012

  “The More Things Change: Jill Lepore's History of Life and Death”

• John Zada on Timbuctoo by Tahir Shah September 6th, 2012

  “The Timbuktu Delusion: On the Famous, Far-Flung City”

• Maria Bustillos on The End of Men and the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin September 11th, 2012

  “Rising Together: A Corrective to Hanna Rosin's "The End of Men"”

• Pankaj Mishra on Chinese Characters by Angilee Shah and Jeffrey Wasserstrom September 13th, 2012

  “A Storm of Change: The Journalism of China's Growth”

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

  “Ending the War between Athens and Jerusalem”

• Katy Evans-Bush on London: A History in Verse by Mark Ford October 14th, 2012

  ““Because London is Still a Kaleidoscope”: The City's History in Verse”

• Menachem Kaiser on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder October 16th, 2012

  “Unshared Histories: Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands"”

• Thomas Larson on A Free Man by Aman Sethi November 1st, 2012

  “Let Us Now Praise Free Men”

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

  “Vacare Oprah: The Gospel of O”

• David Weigel on Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe November 4th, 2012

  “At War with GodCorp: On the History of Marvel Comics”

• John Cline on Darkest America by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen November 16th, 2012

  “The Wages of Blackface”

• William Giraldi on Rotten Reviews Redux: A Literary Companion by Bill Henderson November 30th, 2012

  “The Critic’s Credentials: On 'Rotten Reviews Redux'”

• Mara Hvistendahl on Behind the Red Door by Richard Burger December 16th, 2012

  “China’s Singular Sexual Revolution”

• Srinivas Aravamudan, Julia Lupton and David Palumbo-Liu on Blow Up The Humanities by Toby Miller and Toby Miller December 21st, 2012

  “The Academy In Peril: A Symposium”

• Rachel Adams on Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon January 20th, 2013

  “Solomon's Ladder: On Parenthood, Difference, and Identity ”

• Mya Guarnieri on Gendered Paradoxes by Fida Adely January 20th, 2013

  “Women and the Middle East Part II: Jordan - On Gender, Education and the Limits of the Western Imagination”

• Jacob Silverman on Jews and Words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger January 21st, 2013

  “Trading Faith for Wonder: On Judaism's Literary Legacy”

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

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

• Suzanne Muchnic on Painted Bodies by Carol Beckwith February 3rd, 2013

  “Beyond Tattoos: The Art of Body Adornment in Africa”

• Michael Kammen on Thomas Nast, World's Fair Gardens and Well Met by Fiona Deans Halloran, Cathy Jean Maloney and Rachel Lee Rubin March 3rd, 2013

  “The Branding of America in Public Art: New Books in a Triad of Genres”

• Steven Shapin on Eating the Enlightenment by E. C. Spary March 10th, 2013

  “Enlightenment: It's What's For Dinner”

• Kevin Driscoll on To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov March 17th, 2013

  “The God That Failed: Evgeny Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here””

• Barry Schwartz on The Myths of Happiness, Love 2.0 and Happy Money by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Barbara Fredrickson, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton March 25th, 2013

  “Getting Happier: Three Books on Happiness”

• Lary Wallace on Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman April 5th, 2013

  “Race for the Prize: On Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland”

• 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””

• Gerry Canavan on Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age by Dan Hassler-Forest April 25th, 2013

  “No Dads: Cuckolds, Dead Fathers, and Capitalist Superheroes”

• Alex Kane on Israel Has Moved by Diana Pinto April 28th, 2013

  “Israel Unmoored: The Fault Lines of the Jewish State”

• Gary Sullivan on Pop When The World Falls Apart by Eric Weisbard April 29th, 2013

  “Rock Star Professors: Eric Weisbard’s “Pop When The World Falls Apart””

• Michele Pridmore-Brown on Like A Virgin by Aarathi Prasad May 5th, 2013

  “The Evolving Virgin: Sexual Treaties, Gaga Procreation and the “Facts of Life””

• Megan Abbott on A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe It Or Not!” Ripley by Neal Thompson May 7th, 2013

  “Man and Wunderkammern: "The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Ripley"”

• Katie Engelhart on Fighting the Mau Mau by Huw Bennett May 13th, 2013

  “Empire and the Mau Mau: A Story of Colonialism and Counter-Insurgency”

• John B. Thompson on Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom and What Remains by Stephen R. Platt and Tobie Meyer-Fong May 16th, 2013

  “The World’s Bloodiest Civil War”

• Andrew Scull on The Book of Woe and Hippocrates Cried by Gary Greenberg and Michael Alan Taylor May 19th, 2013

  “Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual”

Essays

• Autumn of the Empire by Joshua Clover July 18th, 2011
• Just Like a Woman by Audrey Bilger September 5th, 2011
• The Room and the Elephant by Sven Birkerts June 7th, 2011
• The Most Versatile of Mystics by Philip Goldberg October 6th, 2011
• Zimbabwe and the Politics of Impunity by Alex Lichtenstein November 23rd, 2011
• The Things We Carry by Jocelyn Heaney November 18th, 2011
• Virtual Violence by Shaun Randol March 22nd, 2012
• Kind Buds by John Lingan April 2nd, 2012
• The Wages of Narrative by John Durham Peters February 1st, 2012
• Discoveries: Tom Bissell, April Bernard, James Franco, John Green, Sarah Manguso by Susan Salter Reynolds May 6th, 2012
• Is The Atlantic Making Us Stupid? by Pamela Erens September 10th, 2012
• The Paradox of Pluck: How Did Historical Fiction Become the New Feminist History? by Lois Leveen September 30th, 2012
• Whither Feminism?: Gender and The New Normal by Jack Halberstam October 7th, 2012
• Teaching, Shall We Say, Elsewhere: A Response to “The Academy in Peril” by Toby Miller January 12th, 2013