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Who Took the Gothic from the Cookie Jar?
Brandon Sward aspires to experience Stendhal syndrome for clout at the “American Gothic” exhibition reading at Night Gallery in Los Angeles.
Archive
Ill Fares the Land
Spencer Weinreich reviews Robin Bernstein’s “Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit.”
Politics of the Unspeakable
Matthew Rana reviews Ann Jäderlund’s “Lonespeech,” translated by Johannes Göransson.
A Strange Career
Adam Sobsey reviews Jeffrey Meyers’s “James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist.”
Chinese Production, American Consumption
Kate Merkel-Hess explores the convergence of economy and politics in the Sino-US relationship via Jonathan Chatwin’s “The Southern Tour” and Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson’s “Made in China.”
The Dream of Han Innocence
Guldana Salimjan reviews “To the Wonder,” the Chinese TV drama that has taken audiences by storm.
The Elsewhere Is Always There
Krys Lee speaks with Kevin Barry about place, poetry, and genre in his latest novel, “The Heart in Winter.”
Sarah Manguso’s “Liars”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Sarah Manguso about her new novel, “Liars.”
The All-Too-Human Flesh of It
A look at the South’s racial bias is not completely free of bias itself, says Bill Thompson, reviewing Pete Candler’s “A Deeper South.”
No Justice, No Peace
Arvind Dilawar reviews Qamar-ul Huda’s “Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam.”
Lush, Reciprocal Entanglements
Manjula Martin explores the hidden costs and radical potential of humanity’s enduring hobby in Olivia Laing’s “The Garden Against Time.”
Integral Witnesses
Renee Hudson reviews Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s “The Brush” and Selva Almada’s “Not a River.”
A Dog-Eat-Dog World
Gisela Salim-Peyer reviews Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s “Simpatía” in advance of the Venezuelan elections.
To Write as They Played
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Susan Tomes’s new collective biography, “Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives.”
Peter Pantages
Brittany Menjivar can fly: straight from La La Land to Never Land, for the revamped “Peter Pan” production at the Pantages.
When a Woman Turns into a Wife
Jenessa Abrams reviews “Liars” by Sarah Manguso in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s essay about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
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