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Dress It Up with Reality
Amelia Anthony aims to separate the art from the artist while reading James Miller’s “The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films.”
All Reviews
I Will Not Waste Chalk
Tim Riley reviews Alan Siegel’s “Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of ‘The Simpsons’ Changed Television—and America—Forever.”
No Love Lost for Heretics
Brad East reviews Jerome E. Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order.”
Come Back Later When Your Work Isn’t So Human
Yael Friedman looks at a recent book, exhibition, and film on photographer Larry Fink.
Millennial Moods
Anna Aguiar Kosicki considers Cora Lewis’s debut novel “Information Age.”
A Forever for Sally
M. G. Lord watches National Geographic’s new documentary “Sally.”
My Brother’s Keeper
Matthew K. Ritchie considers Clipse’s new album “Let God Sort Em Out,” the Virginia rap duo’s reunion, and the rarity of a principled artistic existence.
The Heart Is a Lonely Haunter
Chelsea Davis hangs out with dead people in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Bewitching.”
Many Unsaid Things
Grace Linden considers Kate Briggs’s new translation of “Lili Is Crying,” by Hélène Bessette.
Do Panic
Gideon Leek evaluates Michael Clune’s debut novel, “Pan.”
The Shadow-Sister’s Solidarity
Cory Oldweiler reviews Norwegian author Linn Ullmann’s novel “Girl, 1983,” newly translated by Martin Aitken.
Absolution Through Voyeurism
Max Callimanopulos reviews the new edition of John Gregory Dunne’s classic “Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season.”
“Abundance” Is Not the Answer
Christopher F. Jones disagrees with large portions of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s “Abundance”—in particular, the notion that we can “build” ourselves out of our national problems using technology.
Viral Language
Helena Aeberli looks for rizz in Adam Aleksic’s “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.”
I AM LISTENING! SHUT UP!
Grace Byron endures Ari Aster’s “Eddington.”
It Is Civil War
Conor Williams on the legacy and continued relevance of the activist art collective Gran Fury.
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