All Reviews

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  Beginning to See the Light

  Rowland Bagnall dives into the early work of Stephen Shore, newly collected by MACK.

  Rowland BagnallDec 13

  • Art & Architecture

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  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

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  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

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  Lifestyles of the Rich and Fiendish

  Emy Manini faces Alma Katsu’s demons while reading her newest novel, “Fiend.”

  Emy Manini Dec 11

  • SF

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  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

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  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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  Ha Ha. Sob Sob.

  Hannah Tennant-Moore explores Jesse James Rose’s debut memoir.

  Hannah Tennant-MooreDec 8

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  The Fascist Cinematic Universe

  Tim Brinkhof considers Joe Wright’s new Mussolini miniseries as a flawed representation of the rise of fascism in Italy.

  Tim BrinkhofDec 7

  • Television

  • History

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  A Martyr for Free Speech

  Historian Paul Finkelman praises Brad Snyder’s new account of a wrongfully convicted civil rights hero.

  Paul FinkelmanDec 7

  • Law

  • History

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  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.

  Sumaiya Aftab AhmedDec 6

  • Law

  • History

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  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.

  Karen E. ParkDec 4

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  What the Laureate Left Out

  Heather Treseler accepts the challenge of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney,” a new “definitive collection” of the Irish poet’s work.

  Heather TreselerDec 2

  • Poetry

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  Racialized Economic Piracy

  Joel Edward Goza dives into Calvin Schermerhorn’s new study of American history, tracing a financial pattern of racial exploitation that’s woven into the nation’s fabric.

   Joel Edward GozaNov 30

  • History

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  Closing the Distance, Emerging from the Earth

  Nathan Xavier Osorio finds pain and tenderness in Donika Kelly’s newest poetry collection.

  Nathan Xavier OsorioNov 29

  • Poetry

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  No More Heroes

  Clara Cuccaro considers the “myth of resistance” in Joachim Trier’s newest film, “Sentimental Value.”

  Clara CuccaroNov 28

  • Film

  • History

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  A Power Built on Lies

  Cory Oldweiler reviews Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s novel “Eye of the Monkey,” newly translated by Ottilie Mulzet.

  Cory OldweilerNov 26

  • Fiction