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Here Be Monstrous Architects: On Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture”
Stephanie Schoellman reviews Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition.”
Archive
Making Stones Stony: On Jordan Abel’s “Empty Spaces”
Sarah Dowling reviews Jordan Abel’s new novel “Empty Spaces.”
Bittersweet Wednesday Recollections
David Diaz is no rat, but he saw God in the form of Wednesday headlining the Bellwether in L.A. last Friday.
Sincerity, Delicately Spun: On Honor Levy’s “My First Book”
Conor Truax reviews Honor Levy’s “My First Book.”
Our Future Is Not Foreclosed: A Conversation with Emily Raboteau
Scott Burton interviews Emily Raboteau about “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse.’”
Hot Moms in Your Area
Fiction moms have got it going on, Brittany Menjivar discovers at Kimberly King Parsons’s Skylight Books reading.
Grief-Wild in This Orphan World: On R. O. Kwon’s “Exhibit”
Ryan Lackey reviews R. O. Kwon’s new novel “Exhibit.”
I Would Like to Know Her: On Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers”
Leigh-Michil George reviews Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.”
Squawking, as a Symptom
Among Hollywood headstones, Dandi Meng tips her cowboy hat to Joanna Newsom’s residency at the Masonic Lodge.
A Novelist with a Fury: Reading Arundhati Roy in the Present
Yogita Goyal explores Arundhati Roy’s wide-ranging nonfiction and unflinching political activism.
The Ongoing Present: On Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro’s “Against Erasure”
Tal Frieden reviews “Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba” by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro.
The Narcotic Allure of Dictatorship: On Jacob Heilbrunn’s “America Last”
Matt Hanson reviews Jacob Heilbrunn’s “America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.”
How Long Will I Be a Prisoner? On Alison C. Rollins’s “Black Bell”
Diana Arterian reviews Alison C. Rollins’s “Black Bell.”
United in Torment: On Fine Gråbøl’s “What Kingdom”
Emmeline Clein reviews Fine Gråbøl’s “What Kingdom.”
Why “Hallucination”? Examining the History, and Stakes, of How We Label AI’s Undesirable Output
Joshua Pearson examines the history of the term “hallucination” in the development and promotion of AI technology.
Miranda July’s “All Fours”
Miranda July speaks to Kate Wolf about her latest novel, “All Fours.”
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