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In the Tongue a Knife, in the Knife a Tongue: On Fernanda Melchor’s “Paradais”

Melchor’s new novel is overwhelming, violent, frightening, and leavened by a dark sense of humor....

May 23

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LOWRY PRESSLY

FICTION

Remedial Humanities: On Roosevelt Montás’s “Rescuing Socrates”

A stirring if not fully persuasive defense of the university’s role in the formation of an informed citizenry....

May 23

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IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ PRADO

EDUCATION

Surviving Destruction: What Keeps Going in Eugenie Brinkema’s “Life-Destroying Diagrams”

Jorge Cotte reviews Eugenie Brinkema’s “Life-Destroying Diagrams,” a monograph in defense of radical formalism....

May 23

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JORGE COTTE

The Internet Is a Crime Against Humanity

Justin E. H. Smith’s new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” shows how the human dream of telecommunication has been twisted into a nightmare....

May 22

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JOSHUA JUDD PORTER

You Must Change Your Writing Style: Ward Farnsworth’s Guidebooks to English Virtuosity and Ancient Philosophy

Our culture is preoccupied with content to the almost total exclusion of form, and that’s bad....

May 22

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COLIN MARSHALL

The Hijacked Christianity: A Conversation with Obery M. Hendricks Jr.

Eric C. Miller interviews Obery M. Hendricks Jr. about his new book on the evangelical Right’s pernicious readings of the Bible....

May 22

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ERIC C. MILLER

3 and 4 at 12.26 West in Los Angeles

Ida Badal’s More Trance (2022), oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches; Nik Gelormino’s Flower Stool (no. 05), (2022), cedar, 17½ x 10½ x 17½ inches.

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The Hijacked Christianity: A Conversation with Obery M. Hendricks Jr.

Eric C. Miller interviews Obery M. Hendricks Jr. about his new book on the evangelical Right’s pernicious readings of the Bible....

ERIC C. MILLER

RELIGION

Lines, Lineage, and Light in Jazmina Barrera’s “Linea Nigra”

Nichole LeFebvre feels the magnetic pull of “Linea Nigra,” an essay on pregnancy and earthquakes by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney....