Violence Repeated: On Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation”
Anabelle Johnston reviews Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation.”
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Anabelle Johnston reviews Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation.”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.”
Jamal Batts reviews Robeson Taj Frazier’s “KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell.”
Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews Austin Frerick’s “Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food.”
Heather Treseler reviews April Gibson’s “The Span of a Small Forever” and Alice Notley’s “Being Reflected Upon.”
ISRAEL'S RECENT MILITARY ASSAULT on Gaza serves as a reminder of the continuing urgency of the Palestinian question, which has been a topic of...
Ian Ellison reviews Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain.”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Ryan Coleman reports from the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
Alyx Vesey bemoans the cancellation of HBO Max’s series about a female hip-hop duo, “Rap Sh!t.”
Renee Hudson reviews Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites.”
Svetlana Satchkova reviews Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence Is Mandatory.”
After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon...
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”