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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.
All Reviews
Becoming a Woman Who Screams
Gabrielle McClellan watches Durga Chew-Bose’s debut feature film “Bonjour Tristesse.”
Turning Savage to Create a New World
Sarah Moorhouse reads Sue Prideaux’s “Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin.”
Belly-Crawling Through the Dark
Alyssa Quinn reviews Ben Segal’s experimental novel “Tunnels.”
Not the End of the Broken World
Tianyi considers Yuki Tanaka’s debut collection “Chronicle of Drifting.”
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.
An Asynchronous Patchwork
Matthew Longo examines Ed Pulford’s studies of culture and temporality within the China-Russia-Korea borderlands.
Stop Living Inside Literature
Bekah Waalkes reviews Turkish author Tezer Özlü’s novel “Journey to the Edge of Life,” translated by Maureen Freely.
Marx: The Fourth Boom
Devin Thomas O’Shea pores over Andrew Hartman’s “Karl Marx in America.”
Form, Object, Art
Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
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.”
In Defense of the Free Auteur
David Louis Zuckerman explores crisis and awakening in Amalia Ulman’s film, “Magic Farm,” at the 2025 Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
Bear to Look
Ryan Teitman dives into Rosalie Moffett’s new collection of poems, “Making a Living.”
Terminal Delirium
From the perspective of her own experience as a neurologist, Pria Anand critically reads Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.”
The Rapturous Power of Words
Sarah Moorhouse explores Edward Wilson-Lee’s “The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language.”
Ross Douthat’s Tame God
Ed Simon considers the invitation from Ross Douthat to believe in a deity.
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