Samantha Peale on Thanksgiving: How to Cook It Well by Sam Sifton
November 22nd, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Xujun Eberlein on Mao’s Great Famine and Tombstone by Frank Dikotter and Yang Jisheng
January 31st, 2012
Henry Giardina on Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
“The Third Man: Joseph Anton’s Split Perspective”
November 4th, 2012
Ben Mauk on Both Flesh and Not and The Way the World Works by David Foster Wallace and Nicholson Baker
John Zada on Timbuctoo by Tahir Shah
“The Timbuktu Delusion: On the Famous, Far-Flung City”
September 6th, 2012
K. Bradford on Sister Spit by Michelle Tea
“The Tour that Launched a Million Queers”
April 6th, 2013
Aaron Bady on In the House of the Interpreter by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
“The Two Ngugis: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "In the House of the Interpreter"”
January 30th, 2013
Houman Barekat on Golden Harvest by Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzinska Gross
“Their Silver Lining: Nazi Genocide and Eastern Europe”
September 13th, 2012
Eric Been on I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Mark Dery
June 21st, 2012
Joseph Campana on Thomas Hart Benton: A Life by Justin Wolff
“Thomas Hart Benton and the Contradictions of Populism”
August 19th, 2012
Brian Kim Stefans on Body Sweats by Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven and Suzanne Zelazo
December 16th, 2011
Dan Fante on Shortcut Man by P.G. Sturges
“Three-Dimensional Wistfulness”
June 23rd, 2011
Genres
Nonfiction
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Literary Fiction
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Percival Everett
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Art & Architecture
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Film
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Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More