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It Takes Two: “Shadowbahn” by Steve Erickson
Charles Taylor on Steve Erickson's "Shadowbahn."
Charles TaylorFeb 20, 2017
- Fiction
Forgotten Accounts: Didion’s “South and West”
Didion's latest "South and West": irredeemably past, and yet speaking to the current impasse.
Colin DickeyFeb 19, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Memoir & Essay
Part Company: The Ballad of The Go-Betweens
Chris O’Leary reviews Robert Forster’s memoir “Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens.”
Chris O’LearyFeb 19, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
- Music
One of Them Now, Finally: Stephen Graham Jones’s “Mongrels”
Kristina Baudemann on Stephen Graham Jones's "Mongrels."
Kristina BaudemannFeb 18, 2017
- Fiction
- SF
Born a Crime: A Memoir of Love, Hope, and Resistance
Jeneé Darden on the harrowing love between mother and son in Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime."
Jeneé DardenFeb 18, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
- Television
Before the Flood: Karel Čapek and the Destructive Drift of History
Greg Morrison revisits “War with the Newts,” a prophetic science fiction satire by Czech author Karel Čapek.
Gregory MorrisonFeb 17, 2017
- SF
For When Nothing Happens: Peter Orner on Stories
Shaun Miller on Peter Orner's "Am I Alone Here?"
Shaun MillerFeb 17, 2017
- Literary Criticism
- Memoir & Essay
No Business Like the Supernatural Business
Pericles Lewis on the history of spiritualism.
Pericles LewisFeb 15, 2017
- History
- Religion
The Neobaroque Immigrant: Aura Xilonen’s “Campeón gabacho”/ “The Gringo Champion”
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado on why Aura Xilonen is the Mexican literary voice we need right now.
Ignacio M. Sánchez PradoFeb 15, 2017
- Fiction
Living for the City: Jane Jacobs’s “Vital Little Plans”
Lyra Kilston on Jane Jacobs's "Vital Little Plans," the recently released volume of the writer's shorter work.
Lyra KilstonFeb 14, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
The Civil War of Memory: On Mercè Rodoreda’s “War, So Much War”
Bécquer Seguín on the long underrated Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda and her recently translated novel “War, So Much War.”
Bécquer SeguínFeb 13, 2017
- Around the World
- Fiction
There Has Never Been an America Without Muslims
Amir Hussain looks at the long history of Muslims in America.
Shabana MirFeb 13, 2017
The Mirror and Thomas Jefferson: Real People in Fiction
Using real people in fIction: Steve Erickson and Stephen O'Connor represent Thomas Jefferson.
Hayden BennettFeb 12, 2017
- Fiction
- SF
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas Preston on an expedition to find the fabled Ciudad Blanca, the lost city of the Mosquitia.
Dana StabenowFeb 11, 2017
- Around the World
- History
“The Road to Hell is Paved with Coercive Benevolence”: A Review of “Down, Out & Under Arrest”
Jody D. Armour on the problems of "benevolent" policing on L.A.'s Skid Row.
Jody D. ArmourFeb 11, 2017
- Law
- Politics
French Thought in a Nutshell: On Sudhir Hazareesingh’s “How the French Think”
Maddening and paradoxical we ignore France's extraordinary intellectual and cultural heritage at our peril, says Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Richard GolsanFeb 10, 2017
- Around the World
- Cultural Studies