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Who Was His Little Brother, and Why Was He Killed?
A writer tries to unravel the mystery of who killed his friend — and the friend’s different identities....
MEMOIR & ESSAY
Who Was His Little Brother, and Why Was He Killed?
A writer tries to unravel the mystery of who killed his friend — and the friend’s different identities....
MEMOIR & ESSAY
Sophomoric Sophomores: On Elif Batuman’s “Either/Or”
Batuman’s follow-up to her Pulitzer-nominated debut is another breathless exploration of college life....
FICTION
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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....
LITERARY CRITICISM
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....
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....
MEMOIR & ESSAY
Violent Acts of Alien Intelligences: On Cixin Liu’s “The Three-Body Problem” and Mark Bould’s Climate Criticism
Sungshin Kim and Kurt Guldentops read Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem trilogy against Mark Bould's criticism....
SF