All Reviews

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  When History Hangs Out

  Jacob Stern reviews Richard Linklater’s two latest films, “Nouvelle Vague” and “Blue Moon,” as twin hangout movies.

  Jacob SternNov 21

  • Film

  • History

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  Our Reigning Prophet of Doom

  Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s latest story collection, “The Pelican Child.”

  Gideon LeekNov 21

  • Fiction

  • Environment

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  What We Talk About When We Talk About Cuba

  Sara Kozameh offers a rigorous analysis of cultural production during the Cuban Revolution in conversation with Jennifer L. Lambe’s book “The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba.”

  Sara KozamehNov 20

  • History

  • Politics

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  How to Access Art

  Pasquale Toscano considers Rob Macaisa Colgate’s debut poetry collection, “Hardly Creatures.”

  Pasquale ToscanoNov 20

  • Poetry

  • Cultural Studies

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  A Radical Functionalist

  Lois Parkinson Zamora explores “Architect Hannes Meyer and Radical Modernism” by Georg Leidenberger.

  Lois Parkinson ZamoraNov 19

  • Art & Architecture

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  You Can Go Home Again, and Again, and Again

  Cory Oldweiler reviews the new translation of Danish author Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III).”

  Cory OldweilerNov 18

  • Fiction

  • SF

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  The Cult of Orgasm

  Helena Aeberli traces Ellen Huet’s investigations in “Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult.”

  Helena AeberliNov 18

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Cultural Studies

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  In the Shadow of Yesterday

  Aurelian Craiutu thinks about Balázs Trencsényi’s “Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History.”

  Aurelian CraiutuNov 17

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • History

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  Laboring in the Dream Factory

  Harry Stecopoulos reviews Olivia Laing’s new novel “The Silver Book.”

  Harry StecopoulosNov 16

  • Fiction

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  Sheer Tenderness

  Jessica Simmons-Reid visits Noah Davis’s posthumous survey at the Hammer Museum.

  Jessica Simmons-ReidNov 15

  • Art & Architecture

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  Bones, Roses, and Ruins

  Janet Sarbanes encounters Nancy Buchanan’s career retrospective at the Brick in Los Angeles.

  Janet SarbanesNov 14

  • Art & Architecture

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  A Mole in MAGA’s Midst

  Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.

  Alexandre LefebvreNov 14

  • Politics

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  An Emergency Born of Prosperity

  Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.

  Zoe AdamsNov 13

  • Politics

  • Economics and Finance

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  What’s the Difference Between a God and a Monster?

  Heather Macumber reviews Brandon Grafius’s “Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture.”

  Heather MacumberNov 12

  • SF

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Philosophy’s Warnings in the “Absence” of Emergency

  William Egginton pays heed to Santiago Zabala’s “Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings.”

  William EggintonNov 12

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Hello, Kitty; Goodbye, Illusions

  Minjie Chen takes a journey through China’s shadowlands in “Hello, Kitty and Other Stories” by Anne Stevenson-Yang.

  Minjie ChenNov 10

  • Fiction

  • Cultural Studies