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Excitingly Bizarre and Complicatedly Magical
A highly personal series of detailed “trip reports.”
All Reviews
American Inequality and the Politics of Change
Philanthropy by the economic elite is undercut by their simultaneous efforts to deregulate the marketplace, a new book argues.
Arguing in Love
Diana Selig reviews Nathaniel Frank's "Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America."
Fire, Books, and Memories: On Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book”
What can the 1986 LAPL fire tell us about today's library?
Destroyed by Truth
Tridip Suhrud's careful work on Gandhi's "Autobiography" helps readers understand the man's experiments with the truth and the self.
A Long-Haired Mule and a Porkepine
Eric Gudas dishes on Daryl Sanders’s “That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound.”
Urgent Call for the Respect of Women and Minorities: Kevin Powell’s “My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.”
Charlie Braxton is excited by Kevin Powell's new essay collection.
Border Memories
Two new memoirs about the US-Mexico border.
The Reeducation of a Racist
The impact of a liberal arts education on a white racist, as shown in a new biography.
Anger Persists: On Rebecca Traister’s “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger”
"Good and Mad" uses several prisms for revealing the nuances of women’s anger in the second decade of the 21st century.
“We Are Looking in a Mirror”: Ramsey Campbell Curates the History of Horror
Surveying the history of horror fiction.
A Substantially Good Book: On Charles J. Shields’s Life of John Williams
Christopher Urban admires “The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life” by Charles J. Shields.
A Muslim Founder of the Social Sciences?
In "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography," Robert Irwin sets out to both demythologize and re-mystify the influential 14th-century philosopher.
The Close Fight for Women’s Suffrage
"The ideas and attitudes that fostered opposition to women's suffrage are still with us." Adam Winkler on "The Woman's Hour."
The Other Country
Nick Murray ropes “The Honky Tonk on the Left.”
The Texas Rangers: Good Guys No More
Lily Meyer reviews "The Injustice Never Leaves You."
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