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32 Strips of Paper
Tom Zoellner considers Tim Z. Hernandez’s “They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir,” about the book that helped solve mysteries associated with a 1948 plane crash.
Archive
We Are the Whirled
Eli Diner endures the Divine Wrath of AI fireworks art at the Coliseum, courtesy of C(AI) Guo-Qiang.
Learning from Decadence
Jason Christian interviews Yuri Herrera about “Season of the Swamp,” New Orleans, and Benito Juárez.
To Build a Brother
Aurora Shimshak reviews Alison Thumel’s debut poetry collection, “Architect.”
A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide
Peter B. Kaufman reviews the 18th edition of “The Chicago Manual of Style.”
Can Opera Be Reborn?
Peter Kazaras reviews Yuval Sharon’s “A New Philosophy of Opera.”
Blinded by the Frights
Aspiring It-ghoul Brittany Menjivar gets stabbed by the Grabber and barbed by Chucky at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.
You’ve Got to Let This Razor Blade into Your Life
Tim Riley reviews Robert Hilburn’s “A Few Words In Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman.”
The Ethics of Materiality
Christopher Kondrich reviews Aditi Machado’s “Material Witness”
Provisional Necessity
Christian Wessels reviews Forrest Gander’s “Mojave Ghost.”
Lifestyles of the Rich and the Abject
Caroline Tracey explores, via Dahlia de la Cerda’s “Reservoir Bitches,” the possibilities and limits of women’s agency on the fringes of Mexico’s narcosphere.
On Cat Memes, Cannibalism, and Election Lead-Up Laughter
Maggie Hennefeld writes on the powers and perils of satirical laughter in the run-up to the 2024 US elections.
Is It Time to Have Real Universal Suffrage in the United States?
Paul Finkelman reviews Richard L. Hasen’s “A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.”
Cookbook for the Recently Deceased
Brittany Menjivar departs Tinseltown for Halloween Town and gets her Edward Burger Hands dirty.
Every Abyss Is a Matter of Time
Alina Stefanescu reviews “The Use of Photography” by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, newly translated into English by Alison L. Strayer.
A Technique for Managing the Obliteration of My Self
James Webster reviews Lucy Ives’s essay collection “An Image of My Name Enters America.”
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