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Only by Being Terrible Do They Avoid Being Comic
Sarah AlKahly-Mills explores James Bloodworth’s “Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere.”
All Reviews
Poland as a State of Mind
Agnieszka Dale considers Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s new anthology “The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories.”
Expanding the End of the World
Erin Giannini reviews “The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s ‘The Stand,’” edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene.
Consciousness Multiplied
Asa Drake reviews Harryette Mullen’s “Regaining Unconsciousness.”
Bad Diagrams
Cassandra Seltman on the plumbing paintings of Harry Davies
Out of Language Comes Nothing and Everything
Jennifer Kabat writes on Lynne Tillman and her new collection, “Thrilled to Death.”
We Know It’s a Show
Hamilton Cain reviews Gary Shteyngart’s “Vera, or Faith.”
Howling Memories
Rhoda Kwan reviews two newly translated novels reckoning with China’s bloody past, Fang Fang’s “Soft Burial” and Tsering Döndrup’s “The Red Wind Howls.”
A Child in the State of Nature
Mitchell Abidor reviews the reprint edition of Roger Shattuck’s “The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron.”
The Best Troll Rome Ever Knew
Edward Watts reviews Josiah Osgood’s “Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome.”
Emergency Unending
Darren Wan reviews Hai Fan’s “Delicious Hunger,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, as well as Tiang’s own novel, “State of Emergency.”
Televising Decline
Elizabeth Alsop reviews “The Studio,” “The Franchise,” and other recent industry satires.
I’ll Carry It with Me
Amanda Hawkins explores Michael M. Weinstein’s new poetry collection “Saint Consequence.”
Nature Red (40) in Tooth and Claw
Alison Laurence reviews “Jurassic World Rebirth” in the context of de-extinction developments.
Why the Supreme Court Is Not to Be Trusted
Laurie L. Levenson cross-examines Leah Litman’s “Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes.”
The Siren and the Hack
Eliana Rozinov analyzes the interplay between two recent shows, “Sirens” and “Hacks.”
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