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A Spectacle and Nothing Strange

Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”

Jacquelyn ArdamOct 8

Ta-Ta for Now
Sophie van Well Groeneveld visits a Wolfgang Tillmans survey, the final exhibition at Centre Pompidou before its renovation.
Sophie van Well GroeneveldDec 21
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
Has English Killed Global Literature?
Chloe Garcia Roberts considers J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos’s new book on translation.
Chloe Garcia RobertsDec 19
- Literary Criticism
- Nonfiction
There’s No Telling
Annie Berke considers timelines not taken in new novels by Erin Somers and Catherine Newman.
Annie BerkeDec 18
- Fiction
Contact High: Anselm Kiefer at 80
Ranbir Sidhu visits two recent exhibitions of Anselm Kiefer in Greece and the Netherlands.
Ranbir SidhuDec 17
- Art & Architecture

From the Archive

The Bargaining Chips Are … Chips: On Chris Miller’s “Chip War”

Historian of technology Patrick McCray describes Chris Miller’s “Chip War” as “an account of how chips became a strategically vital resource whose importance is overlooked at our peril.” Miller has placed his own chips on this point. His bet has largely paid off, according to McCray.

W. Patrick McCrayOct 4, 2022

Isengard in Oxford
Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.
Christian KriticosDec 17
- SF
- Fiction
Culture Never Recovered
From his rear window, M. Keith Booker reads the new anthology of stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
M. Keith BookerDec 15
- Film
- Noir
Beginning to See the Light
Rowland Bagnall dives into the early work of Stephen Shore, newly collected by MACK.
Rowland BagnallDec 13
- Art & Architecture
Accidental Offerings to Ancient Gods
A palace of fine arts sinks into historical depths in Beatriz Cortez’s exhibition at Commonwealth and Council.
Will FenstermakerDec 12
- Art & Architecture
The Robinsonade in the Age of Reality TV
Drew Basile reads the new English reissue of French author Michel Tournier’s novel “Friday.”
Drew Basile Dec 11
- Fiction
Lifestyles of the Rich and Fiendish
Emy Manini faces Alma Katsu’s demons while reading her newest novel, “Fiend.”
Emy Manini Dec 11
- SF
Run for the Sun, Little One
Carly Mattox considers recent critiques of imperialist nostalgia via Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” and Adam Curtis’s “Shifty.”
Carly MattoxDec 10
- Film
- Television
Saints of the Middlebrow
Jon Repetti considers Jeremy Rosen’s “Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction.”
Jon RepettiDec 9
- Literary Criticism

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