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.”
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.”
Arvind Dilawar reviews Qamar-ul Huda’s “Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam.”
Manjula Martin explores the hidden costs and radical potential of humanity’s enduring hobby in Olivia Laing’s “The Garden Against Time.”
Renee Hudson reviews Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s “The Brush” and Selva Almada’s “Not a River.”
Gisela Salim-Peyer reviews Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s “Simpatía” in advance of the Venezuelan elections.
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Susan Tomes’s new collective biography, “Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives.”
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
Hamilton Cain reviews the prolific Irish author Kevin Barry’s new literary Western, “The Heart in Winter.”
Daniel Blank reviews James Shapiro’s “The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.”
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Michael Szalay reviews season three of FX’s “The Bear.”
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
Gaby Del Valle reviews Kimberly Meyer’s “Accidental Sisters” and Susan J. Terrio’s “Forced Out.”
Rowland Bagnall reviews the recent rerelease of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory.”
Lori Marso reviews Catherine Breillat’s film “Last Summer” in the context of the director’s body of work, as well as alongside the recent Miranda...
Tristan Marshall, a graduate of the foster care system, considers Rob Henderson’s “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.”