Michael Bourne on The Heart Broke In by
“Promiscuity Without Consequence: James Meek on an Immoral Majority”
December 22nd, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Ian Scheffler on The Voice Is All by Joyce Johnson
“Speak, Jack: Joyce Johnson’s New Biography of Jack Kerouac”
December 21st, 2012
Srinivas Aravamudan, Julia Lupton and David Palumbo-Liu on Blow Up The Humanities by Toby Miller and Toby Miller
“The Academy In Peril: A Symposium”
December 21st, 2012
Michael Bourne on Magnificence by Lydia Millet
“Species Decline: On Lydia Millet's 'Magnificence'”
December 19th, 2012
David Winters on Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
“Difficult Intimacies: Christine Schutt’s Dark Portraits of Marriage”
December 19th, 2012
Eileen Reynolds on The First Four Notes by Matthew Guerrieri
“Sublime Nothingness: On 'The First Four Notes'”
December 18th, 2012
Rob Latham on Nested Scrolls by Rudy Rucker
December 18th, 2012
David Wolpe on Why Love Hurts by Eva Illouz
“An Age of Broken Glances: On 'Why Love Hurts'”
December 17th, 2012
Mara Hvistendahl on Behind the Red Door by Richard Burger
“China’s Singular Sexual Revolution”
December 16th, 2012
Renate Stendhal on How the French Invented Love by Marilyn Yalom
“L’Amour (Oh La La) L’Amour is Strange”
December 16th, 2012
Emily M. Keeler on Heroines by Kate Zambreno
“C'est Pas Moi: On Kate Zambreno's 'Heroines'”
December 16th, 2012
Johannes Lichtman on Fakes by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer
“Subverting Our Expectations: The State of the Short Story”
December 14th, 2012
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Art & Architecture
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SF
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Biography & Autobiography
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Percival Everett
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Film
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Comics
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Science & Technology
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