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Lost Men, Found Women: Revisiting the New Hollywood
Nancy West engages in a feminist “anti-retrospective” of the cinema of 1972.
Nancy M. WestApr 13, 2022
- Film
Ordinary People’s History: On Laura Carter’s “Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918–1979”
Carter’s book is a reminder that the quotidian can be both exciting and also key to understanding the lived reality of the past.
Thomas J. SojkaApr 12, 2022
- History
Inside Someone Else’s Head: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan
Rachel Barenbaum asks Jennifer Egan about her new novel, “The Candy House.”
Rachel BarenbaumApr 12, 2022
- Fiction
Joy Is Analog: On Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House”
In this sequel to “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” joy resides in the dirt and dust of the world.
Grace LindenApr 12, 2022
- Fiction
Pretending the Unhoused Away
Why Los Angeles’s special enforcement zones are a bad idea.
Daniel PolanskyApr 11, 2022
- Politics
A Life Touched by Profound Illness: A Conversation with Meghan O’Rourke
Meghan O’Rourke discusses her new book, “The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness.”
Yvonne ConzaApr 11, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
“London Has Burst into Bloom”: On John Davis’s “Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher”
An oddly conceived but solidly researched study of 1960s and ’70s London.
Geoff NicholsonApr 11, 2022
- History
Old Testament, New Telling: On Roberto Calasso’s “The Book of All Books”
Dan Turello remembers his Sunday school days, and considers Roberto Calasso’s “The Book of All Books,” his take on the Old Testament.
Dan TurelloApr 10, 2022
- Religion
Luck Will Still Smile on Us: Reconnecting with Ukraine from Minneapolis
Angela Ajayi, the daughter of a Nigerian father and Ukrainian mother, reconnects with her Ukrainian identity as Russia invades.
Angela AjayiApr 10, 2022
A Heart Out of Sync at the “Chaktomuk” in Cambodia
Farah Abdessamad poignantly details the Tonle Sap Lake’s slow death in her review of Abby Seiff’s book on the subject.
Farah AbdessamadApr 10, 2022
- Around the World
Born a Storm: On Kohta Hirano’s “Hellsing”
Kohta Hirano’s “Hellsing” is a work at once too delightfully absurd to be believed and too believ-able to be absurd.
Austin PriceApr 9, 2022
- Comics
Looking Beyond: A Conversation with Aminatta Forna
The author discusses her sharp, engaging new collection of essays, “The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion.”
Sylvia BrownriggApr 9, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
“A Brilliant, Holistic Approach”: On Deborah Warren’s “Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment”
Tom Dalzell gets to the root of Deborah Warren’s “Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment.”
Tom DalzellApr 8, 2022
- Law
Cultural Dopes
The postmodernists had it right: all culture is the product of capitalism.
GD DessApr 8, 2022
- Cultural Studies
Their Own Voices: Dyanne Asimow’s “Canaries”
Susan BaskinApr 8, 2022
The Haynes Code
Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews a recent anthology about Todd Haynes as feminist-queer filmmaker.
Jean-Thomas TremblayApr 8, 2022
- Film