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The Useless Prophet
Anthony Curtis Adler considers the new translation of Walter Benjamin’s “On Goethe” from Stanford University Press.
All Reviews
Party Lines and Bottom Lines
Martin Laflamme traces the history and future of globalization through three recent books on China’s techno-nationalism.
Tuck In
Helena Aeberli devours Ruby Tandoh’s “All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now.”
Tripping with Plotinus
M. D. Usher explores Moin Mir’s “Travels with Plotinus: A Journey in Search of Unity.”
The Point, However, Is to Change It
In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.”
Microdoses of Power on the Eastern Front
Alan Barenberg considers Michael David-Fox’s “Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule.”
The Enemy of Aggression
Zach Gibson revisits Michel Serres’s “Hermes” series by way of Randolph Burks’s new translation.
The Will to Power in China
Anne Stevenson-Yang reviews Robert L. Suettinger’s “The Conscience of the Party” and Joseph Torigian’s “The Party’s Interests Come First.”
In Hitler’s Shadow
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reviews Alec Ryrie’s “The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It.”
Gazing into One’s Own Head
Josh Billings reviews German author Michael Lentz’s novel “Schattenfroh,” newly translated by Max Lawton.
Cough Up the Pill
David Schurman Wallace reviews Natalie Shapero’s new collection “Stay Dead.”
The Sound of Our World Resurging
David Palumbo-Liu considers Linda Quiquivix’s “Palestine 1492: A Report Back.”
Bleak Intimacies
Katie Tobin reviews Hungarian author Ágota Kristóf’s story collection “I Don’t Care,” newly translated by Chris Andrews.
Connecting the Dots
Adam Sobsey talks with Nell Zink and explores her new novel “Sister Europe.”
Cruising as Moral Practice
Jordan Osserman reads two recent queer theory books exploring the form and chemistry of sex.
The Dream of the 2000s Is Dead
Kristen Felicetti considers Colette Shade’s “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.”
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