Albert Wu on God is Red by Liao Yiwu
March 8th, 2012
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Siobhan Phillips on Well Then There Now by Juliana Spahr
February 22nd, 2012
John Romano on Civilization by Niall Ferguson
February 17th, 2012
Elbert Ventura on Hollywood Left and Right by Steven J. Ross
November 22nd, 2011
Matthew Specktor on The Cows by Lydia Davis
November 8th, 2011
John Shannon on Sympathy for the Devil by Kent Anderson
October 14th, 2011
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
Sara Marcus on Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis
“Cherry Bomb: On Ellen Willis”
September 19th, 2011
Cullen Gallagher on Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
“The Criminal Kind: Sara Gran”
September 17th, 2011
Thomas S. Hines on Architecture in Uniform by Jean-Louis Cohen
September 7th, 2011
Rachel Galvin on The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec
August 31st, 2011
Cullen Gallagher on Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying by Bill Crider
“The Criminal Kind: Geezer Noir”
June 23rd, 2011
Cullen Gallagher on By Hook or By Crook by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
“The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg”
June 23rd, 2011
Marjorie Perloff on Ventrakl by Christian Hawkey
May 17th, 2011
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