All Reviews

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  Bones, Roses, and Ruins

  Janet Sarbanes encounters Nancy Buchanan’s career retrospective at the Brick in Los Angeles.

  Janet SarbanesNov 14

  • Art & Architecture

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  A Mole in MAGA’s Midst

  Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.

  Alexandre LefebvreNov 14

  • Politics

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  An Emergency Born of Prosperity

  Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.

  Zoe AdamsNov 13

  • Politics

  • Economics and Finance

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  What’s the Difference Between a God and a Monster?

  Heather Macumber reviews Brandon Grafius’s “Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture.”

  Heather MacumberNov 12

  • SF

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Philosophy’s Warnings in the “Absence” of Emergency

  William Egginton pays heed to Santiago Zabala’s “Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings.”

  William EggintonNov 12

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Hello, Kitty; Goodbye, Illusions

  Minjie Chen takes a journey through China’s shadowlands in “Hello, Kitty and Other Stories” by Anne Stevenson-Yang.

  Minjie ChenNov 10

  • Fiction

  • Cultural Studies

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  It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Problem

  Tom Williams explores the folklore surrounding a pop star’s reputation in Elly McCausland’s “Swifterature: A Love Story.”

  Tom Williams Nov 9

  • Music

  • Literary Criticism

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  Uniquely Positioned to Combat Injustice

  Randy M. Browne considers Keisha N. Blain’s new book, which finds that Black women, historically, haven’t simply argued for racial justice at home; they have, in fact, fought for and won human rights for everyone worldwide.

  Randy M. BrowneNov 8

  • History

  • Politics

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  Los Angeles in Black and White

  Victoria Dailey reviews Jake Milgram Wien’s catalogue raisonné “Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond.”

  Victoria DaileyNov 8

  • Art & Architecture

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  Rebel Without a Clue

  Elizabeth Alsop picks up the trail of Kelly Reichardt’s alienated art thief in “The Mastermind.”

  Elizabeth AlsopNov 7

  • Film

  • Cultural Studies

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  Strange New Lows

  Adam Kotsko boldly goes into season three of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” with high expectations.

  Adam KotskoNov 7

  • SF

  • Television

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  Disenchanted Enchantment

  Jordan Williamson investigates Derek Lee’s “Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal” and Joshua Comaroff’s “Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore.”

  Jordan WilliamsonNov 6

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Cultural Studies

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  Fantastic Lies

  Annalisa Zox-Weaver reviews Andres Veiel’s 2024 documentary about Hitler’s favorite filmmaker.

  Annalisa Zox-WeaverNov 6

  • Film

  • History

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  Giant Platforms of Shit

  Dave Mandl catches a whiff of Cory Doctorow’s anatomy of platform “enshittification.”

  Dave MandlNov 5

  • Science & Technology

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  The Baby Was Screaming

  Tia Glista examines the pro-child paranoia that fuels FX’s new series “Alien: Earth.”

  Tia GlistaNov 4

  • Television

  • SF

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  Sound Epistemology

  Alexander Billet listens to Damon Krukowski’s “Why Sound Matters.”

  Alexander BilletNov 2

  • Cultural Studies

  • Music