All Reviews

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  The End of Psychiatry (Kind Of)

  Neurologist Pria Anand lauds Khameer Kidia’s new dissection of Western psychiatric imperialism.

  Pria AnandFeb 3

  • Science & Technology

  • Cultural Studies

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  Loners and Assassins

  Tom Lutz’s new novel ‘Chagos Archipelago’ finds unexpected heart in the adventures of geopolitical operatives and globe-trotting fuckups.

  Jerry StahlFeb 3

  • Fiction

  • Noir

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  Hold Me Too Close

  Writer-director Bradley Cooper’s ‘evangelizing’ new film ‘Is This Thing On?’ explores human connection in marriage and stand-up comedy.

  Frank FalisiFeb 2

  • Film

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  Edward Said and the Task of the Intellectual Today

  What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?

  Rebecca Ruth GouldFeb 2

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Politics

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  Biography of a Corrupted Court

  Lisa Graves’s new exposé of Chief Justice John Roberts deconstructs the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court.

  Paul FinkelmanJan 31

  • Politics

  • Law

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  Me, No You

  Diamond Forde’s poetry communes with her grandmother Alice’s interior universe, reflecting ‘a dance between two bodies, alive together despite a generation between them.’

  Nic CavellJan 31

  • Poetry

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  Have Democrats Learned Anything?

  Was Nevada Democrat Harry Reid truly a master of the Senate, or at least a game changer, as Jon Ralston’s new biography argues?

  Jon ChristensenJan 30

  • Politics

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  A Slave Empire

  Brooke N. Newman’s ‘The Crown’s Silence’ dives into the long history of transatlantic atrocities committed by Charles III’s ancestors in the name of empire.

  Michael O’DonnellJan 29

  • History

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  Our Animals and Other Family

  An exhibition inspired by John Berger asks us to reconsider human-animal relations.

  Max L. FeldmanJan 29

  • Art & Architecture

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  An Uneasy Polemic

  George Saunders’s latest ghost story, ‘Vigil,’ is a fanciful, tedious megaphone for its author, rather than for its characters.

  Kazuo RobinsonJan 27

  • Fiction

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  Life as It Should Be

  Devon Halliday on the lure of reality TV in Stephen Fishbach’s novel ‘Escape!’

  Devon HallidayJan 27

  • Fiction

  • Television

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  Toward a More Creative Vampirism

  Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ shines sunlight on the vampirism of cinematic AI and the ways studios have bled the vampire IP dry.

  Ryan BedsaulJan 26

  • Film

  • Cultural Studies

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  Ascetic Ghosts in the Machine

  M. D. Usher on Paul Kingsnorth’s impassioned and flawed new manifesto against the pervasiveness of technology in modern life.

  M. D. UsherJan 24

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Science & Technology

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  Learn to Love Engineers

  New books by Dan Wang and Hu Anyan depict ‘both the achievements and the costs of China’s technological rise,’ and why Americans should take note.

  Afra WangJan 22

  • Politics

  • Science & Technology

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  We Lived Inside Sadness Itself

  On Brenda Navarro’s novel ‘Eating Ashes,’ newly translated by Megan McDowell.

  Cory OldweilerJan 20

  • Fiction

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  Haunted by Silence

  In Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel ‘The Old Fire,’ newly translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, two sisters must find a way to communicate without words.

  Grace LindenJan 20

  • Fiction