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The Pulp of Culture: On Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War”
Greg Barnhisel reviews Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.”
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Finally, a Cure for Eldest Daughter Syndrome! On Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry”
Leah Abrams reviews Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry.”
A Groupie’s Ghostwriter: On Sarah Tomlinson’s “The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers”
Jason Thornberry reviews Sarah Tomlinson’s “The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers.”
Deprovincializing Criticism: On Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Spies Like Us: On David McCloskey’s “Moscow X”
Katherine Voyles reviews David McCloskey’s “Moscow X.”
Borderless Text: On Helen Oyeyemi’s “Parasol Against the Axe”
Hannah Kofman reviews Helen Oyeyemi's “Parasol Against the Axe.”
Pay Pigs, Incels, and Young Sociopaths
A. J. Brown gets parasocial for the launch of Brittany Menjivar’s debut anthology at Stories in Echo Park.
The Problem with Adoption
Kate Wolf speaks with sociologist Gretchen Sisson about her first book, “Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood.”
The “Tedious Parody” of Colonialism: On Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors” and Paul Theroux’s “Burma Sahib”
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia: Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors” and Paul Theroux’s “Burma Sahib.”
Our Not-Yet-Realized Almanac of the Future: On Veer Books’ “Corroding the Now” Anthology
David Shipko reviews Veer Books’ new anthology “Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science/SF.”
Chants of the Erotomane: On Wayne Koestenbaum’s “Stubble Archipelago”
Bailey Trela reviews Wayne Koestenbaum’s “Stubble Archipelago.”
Rock-Fuel and Warlike People: On Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion”
In an essay that takes off from Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry,” native son Jonah Walters finds something entirely too innocent about the tales told about the anthracite industry’s origins.
Towards a New Plastic Order
Emma dePaulo Reid determines whether haircutting, tree trunks, and negated flour chickens were wise beyond their years at the Hammer Museum’s “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s” exhibit.
Alert Respect Before the Other Soul: On Katja Haustein’s “Alone with Others”
Ian Ellison reviews Katja Haustein’s “Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters.”
Killerheimer: American Betrayal in Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan
Jimmy So analyzes what “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” have to say about America.
I Wrong Form: On Cindy Juyoung Ok’s “Ward Toward”
Chloe Xiang reviews Cindy Juyoung Ok’s “Ward Toward.”
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