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The Dark Shadow of the Chinese Dream
Sasha Karsavina examines Mingwei Song’s “Fear of Seeing” and the first two books of Han Song’s “Hospital” trilogy.
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Arizona! You Won’t Believe It!
Michael Downs reviews Richard Grant’s “A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona.”
Place Out of No Place
Melissa Seley paints a picture of Alice Neel, through the eyes of Hilton Als, at David Zwirner in Los Angeles.
A Politics to Conjure a People
Carmen E. Lamas reviews Renee Hudson’s “Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas.”
Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited
Dennis Wilson Wise reviews two books on Tolkien and the challenges Tolkien studies faces when engaging the wider discipline.
The Source of All Amazement
M. Keith Booker reviews “Playground” by Richard Powers.
The Universe Just Doesn’t Care
Kate Durbin interviews Juliet Escoria about her new story collection “You Are the Snake.”
To Linger in the Wisdom of Doubt
Alessia Degraeve reviews Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain.”
Clear Eyes, Empty Town, Can’t Win
Will Leitch considers the heartbreak of small-town football in his review of John M. Glionna’s “No Friday Night Lights.”
Danger Done Safely
Elizabeth Alsop investigates how the latest season of “Only Murders in the Building” reveals the pleasures and limits of coziness, in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
More than Human
Erika Howsare reviews Kapka Kassabova’s “Anima: A Wild Pastoral.”
John E. Mack and the Unbelievable UFO Truth
Michael J. Socolow looks back at the controversial career of John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who wrote best-selling books on UFO abduction.
Bringing People Together in a State of Joy
Peter Catapano interviews Alvin Curran about his long career as an avant-garde composer.
What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy
Eli Diner probes his Dome trying to Intuit why anyone would sink four billion dollars into the L.A. Clippers infrastructure.
Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain”
Eric Newman speaks with Garth Greenwell about his latest novel, “Small Rain.”
Tastes Like Home
Yangyang Cheng reviews Michelle T. King’s “Chop Fry Watch Learn” and Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
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