All Reviews

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  Fault Lines of This World

  Janice Weizman reviews Marcela Sulak’s “The Fault” and Carlie Hoffman’s “One More World Like This World.”

  Janice WeizmanMar 19, 2025

  • Poetry

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  Leaving and Arriving

  Max Callimanopulos examines Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel “Theft.”

  Max CallimanopulosMar 18, 2025

  • Fiction

  • Cultural Studies

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  The Poetry of Grief

  Eileen G’Sell reviews two new poetry collections, Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” and Cass Donish’s “Your Dazzling Death.”

  Eileen G’SellMar 18, 2025

  • Poetry

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  All My Small Things

  Josh Billings reviews Helen Garner’s “How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998.”

  Josh BillingsMar 17, 2025

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Down the Manson Rabbit Hole

  Abby Aguirre considers Errol Morris’s new documentary “CHAOS: The Manson Murders.”

  Abby AguirreMar 16, 2025

  • Film

  • Television

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  Morbid Symptoms Par Excellence

  Irene Katz Connelly reviews Michelle de Kretser’s new novel “Theory & Practice.”

  Irene Katz ConnellyMar 15, 2025

  • Fiction

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  Triumph of the Lost Cause

  Jimin Seo examines Azad Ashim Sharma’s collection “Boiled Owls.”

  Jimin SeoMar 13, 2025

  • Poetry

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  Unknown Structures

  Jonathan Alexander considers the English translations of Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie’s “The Use of Photography” and Hervé Guibert’s “Suzanne and Louise.”

  Jonathan AlexanderMar 12, 2025

  • Art & Architecture

  • Nonfiction

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  We Are Never Well, nor Can Be So

  Helena Aeberli ponders Caroline Crampton’s “A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria.”

  Helena AeberliMar 11, 2025

  • Cultural Studies

  • Science & Technology

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  My Poem with This Wailing in the Background

  Christopher Kempf reviews Rachel Richardson’s “Smother” and Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place.”

  Christopher KempfMar 11, 2025

  • Poetry

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  Hope and Disillusionment

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews Clare Hammond’s “On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar.”

  Jeffrey WasserstromMar 10, 2025

  • Politics

  • Cultural Studies

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  This Is What Democracy Looks Like!

  Andrew Tonkovich reviews Sue Coe and Stephen F. Eisenman’s “The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism.”

  Andrew TonkovichMar 9, 2025

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

  • Politics

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  Children in the Underworld

  Evangeline Riddiford Graham reviews William Archila’s collection “S Is For.”

  Evangeline Riddiford GrahamMar 9, 2025

  • Poetry

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  A Language for Sharing

  Sumana Roy considers Michel Chaouli’s “Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins.”

  Sumana RoyMar 8, 2025

  • Literary Criticism

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  There Is No Happy Nonsense

  Mark Dery reviews "From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey."

  Mark DeryMar 8, 2025

  • Art & Architecture

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  The Man Who Knew the Price

  Spencer Weinreich examines the late Alexei Navalny’s memoir “Patriot.”

  Spencer J. WeinreichMar 7, 2025

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Politics