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Getting “Woke”: Mary Gaitskill’s “Somebody with a Little Hammer”
Is there enough new material by Gaitskill in "Somebody with a Little Hammer"? Sariah Dorbin weighs in.
Sariah DorbinApr 4, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
“The Only Form in All the Arts”: On Rachel Cusk’s Autobiographical Fiction
Morten Høi Jensen considers the form of “Transit: A Novel” by Rachel Cusk.
Morten Høi JensenApr 3, 2017
- Fiction
In Praise of Slowness
Henry Martyn Lloyd on "The Slow Professor" and "Slow Philosophy."
Henry Martyn LloydApr 2, 2017
- Philosophy & Religion
Forging Nature: On “The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium”
Colin Dickey reviews Juan Pimentel’s “The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History.”
Colin DickeyApr 2, 2017
- History
- Science & Technology
An Image of Africa From the Sky: Jules Verne’s “Five Weeks in a Balloon”
Sanguine as Verne is about the progress of science, he is no mere apologist for European colonialism or industrial capitalism.
John RiederApr 1, 2017
- SF
The Hope Is That There Was Hope
Libby Flores reviews Deb Olin Unferth's "Wait Till You See Me Dance."
Libby FloresMar 31, 2017
- Fiction
How to Do Things with Genres
Marta Figlerowicz on André Jolles’s "Simple Forms."
Marta FiglerowiczMar 30, 2017
- Literary Criticism
- Philosophy & Religion
Traumatized Nixon
“Richard Nixon is not the gateway to understanding Donald Trump.” Larry Harnisch reviews John A. Farrell’s “Richard Nixon: The Life.”
Larry HarnischMar 29, 2017
- Biography & Autobiography
- Politics
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Rosanna Warren and Melissa Range
Lisa Russ Spaar takes a second look at second books by poets Rosanna Warren and Melissa Range.
Lisa Russ SpaarMar 28, 2017
- Poetry
Totalitarianism, At Home and Abroad: Vaughn Rasberry’s “Race and the Totalitarian Century”
Andrew Lanham reviews Vaughn Rasberry’s “Race and the Totalitarian Century.”
Andrew LanhamMar 26, 2017
- History
- Literary Criticism
Can the Great Lakes Be Saved?
Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson review Dan Egan’s “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.”
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Vicky AlbrittonMar 26, 2017
- Politics
- Science & Technology
What Exists Is Good: On “The Architecture of Neoliberalism”
Joseph Henry Staten reviews Douglas Spencer’s new book on neoliberal architecture.
Joseph Henry StatenMar 25, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
The Strange Promise of a Genuine Squirrel Coat
Judith Freeman admires “Bonnie Cashin: Chic Is Where You Find It” by Stephanie Lake.
Judith FreemanMar 25, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Biography & Autobiography
What Art Does: “When the World Wounds” by Kiini Ibura Salaam
In “When the World Wounds,” Salaam writes stories to let you feel life’s philosophical, theological, cosmological potential in your mind/body.
Andrea HairstonMar 25, 2017
- SF
Worse Than the “Vilest Strumpet”
Leigh Eric Schmidt on Bonnie S. Anderson's biography of Ernestine Rose, "The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter."
Leigh Eric SchmidtMar 22, 2017
- Biography & Autobiography
- Religion
“Nature is a Bitch”: An Environmentalist’s Scorn for Tree Huggers
Louise Fabiani reviews Benjamin Hale's "The Wild and the Wicked."
Louise FabianiMar 21, 2017
- Science & Technology