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Is Restructuring the Answer?
Joel Seligman discusses Stephen H. Legomsky’s radical call for restructuring the American republic.
Joel SeligmanJun 6
- Law
- Politics
Daughters Are Not Like Spilled Water
Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews recent books about the aftermath of China’s one-child policy and the experience of women in contemporary China.
Susan Blumberg-KasonJun 5
- Gender & Sexuality
- Cultural Studies
Drawing Out Twombly
Cy Twombly was all over New York and Dean Rader was there to see it.
Dean RaderJun 4
- Art & Architecture
 If Not a Nemesis, a Mirror?
Chris Featherman looks at Marlène Laruelle’s “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime.”
Chris FeathermanJun 4
- Politics
- Cultural Studies
Every Word Is to Be Construed in Favor of Liberty
Joshua D. Rothman reviews Zaakir Tameez’s biography “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.”
Joshua D. RothmanJun 3
- Biography & Autobiography
- History
The First Rough Draft of the United States’ Homegrown Nazis
Michael Bobelian considers the renewed relevance of “Under Cover,” Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld.
Michael BobelianJun 3
- History
- Politics
Becoming a Woman Who Screams
Gabrielle McClellan watches Durga Chew-Bose’s debut feature film “Bonjour Tristesse.”
Gabrielle McClellanJun 2
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
Turning Savage to Create a New World
Sarah Moorhouse reads Sue Prideaux’s “Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin.”
Sarah MoorhouseJun 2
- Art & Architecture
- Biography & Autobiography
Belly-Crawling Through the Dark
Alyssa Quinn reviews Ben Segal’s experimental novel “Tunnels.”
Alyssa QuinnJun 1
- Fiction
Not the End of the Broken World
Tianyi considers Yuki Tanaka’s debut collection “Chronicle of Drifting.”
TianyiMay 31
- Poetry
Grassroots and Guerrillas
Kelly Hammond reviews Stephen R. Platt’s “The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II” alongside other new work about East Asia in World War II.
Kelly HammondMay 30
- History
An Asynchronous Patchwork
Matthew Longo examines Ed Pulford’s studies of culture and temporality within the China-Russia-Korea borderlands.
Matthew LongoMay 29
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Stop Living Inside Literature
Bekah Waalkes reviews Turkish author Tezer Özlü’s novel “Journey to the Edge of Life,” translated by Maureen Freely.
Bekah WaalkesMay 28
- Fiction
Marx: The Fourth Boom
Devin Thomas O’Shea pores over Andrew Hartman’s “Karl Marx in America.”
Devin Thomas O’SheaMay 27
- Politics
- History
Form, Object, Art
Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
Caroline TraceyMay 27
- Art & Architecture
- Environment
All That Lovely Old Transsexual Shit
Agnes Borinsky appreciates all the ways Vivian Blaxell’s does transness in her book-length essay “Worthy of the Event.”
Agnes BorinskyMay 26
- Memoir & Essay
- Gender & Sexuality