Sara Marcus on Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis
“Cherry Bomb: On Ellen Willis”
September 19th, 2011
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Mara Hvistendahl on Behind the Red Door by Richard Burger
“China’s Singular Sexual Revolution”
December 16th, 2012
Rachel Galvin on The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec
August 31st, 2011
Albert Wu on God is Red by Liao Yiwu
March 8th, 2012
Deborah J. Ross on Cinder by Marissa Meyer
July 10th, 2012
Swati Pandey on Life Itself by Roger Ebert
“Cinematic: Roger Ebert's "Life Itself"”
March 14th, 2012
Houman Barekat on How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price
“Circulation Jerks: On the Book as Fetish Object”
August 31st, 2012
Jo Giese on Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch
“Clam Spit and the Seattle World's Fair”
February 23rd, 2013
Louise Steinman on Vera Gran: The Accused by Agata Tuszynska
“Confronting the Accused: On Agata Tuszynska and Vera Gran”
February 27th, 2013
John Cline on My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
“Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line”
July 1st, 2012
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
Thomas S. Hines on Architecture in Uniform by Jean-Louis Cohen
September 7th, 2011
Lindsay Reckson on Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey
June 19th, 2012
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