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A Spectacle and Nothing Strange
Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”
Reviews
Culture Never Recovered
From his rear window, M. Keith Booker reads the new anthology of stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Beginning to See the Light
Rowland Bagnall dives into the early work of Stephen Shore, newly collected by MACK.
Accidental Offerings to Ancient Gods
A palace of fine arts sinks into historical depths in Beatriz Cortez’s exhibition at Commonwealth and Council.
The Robinsonade in the Age of Reality TV
Drew Basile reads the new English reissue of French author Michel Tournier’s novel “Friday.”
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From the Archive
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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.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Fiendish
Emy Manini faces Alma Katsu’s demons while reading her newest novel, “Fiend.”
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.”
Saints of the Middlebrow
Jon Repetti considers Jeremy Rosen’s “Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction.”
Ha Ha. Sob Sob.
Hannah Tennant-Moore explores Jesse James Rose’s debut memoir.
The Fascist Cinematic Universe
Tim Brinkhof considers Joe Wright’s new Mussolini miniseries as a flawed representation of the rise of fascism in Italy.
A Martyr for Free Speech
Historian Paul Finkelman praises Brad Snyder’s new account of a wrongfully convicted civil rights hero.
The Law Is Never a Given
Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed considers “38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia,” the newest book from Philippe Sands.
Ambivalence and Devotion
Karen E. Park explores Kristin Grady Gilger’s “mother memoir” about her son’s most troubling decision: to become a Catholic priest.
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