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A Surreal Argentine Western in César Aira’s “Ema the Captive”
César Aira's "Ema the Captive" is a surreal Western in the spirit of Cormac McCarthy’s "Blood Meridian" that causes you to lose your sense of proportion.
All Reviews
How To Win Dinner and Alienate People
Andrew Lipstein takes a fork to “Table Manners” by Jeremiah Tower.
This is Science Fiction?
Who ended up in Jeff and Ann VanderMeer's "The Big Book of Science Fiction"?
Trouble in the Heartland
Is Bruce Springsteen's memoir "Born to Run" one of the great music memoirs, or just a tired retread of the rock star mythos?
Young Lives in the New China
Gail Pellett on millennials in China.
Richard Posner Is a Monster
Richard Posner is a monster, or so he says, but so is Wagner, Tolstoy, Proust, Kafka.
All That Modernism Is: Reading David Szalay
Booker-shortlisted David Szalay plays the modernist game remarkably well.
All the Stream That’s Roaring By
Fanny Howe continues to unsettle and compel in her new collection "The Needle's Eye."
The Evolution of a Supreme Court Justice
Brachah Goykadosh reviews two new books on Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Bae Suah’s Narrative Collapse
The recently translated “A Greater Music” by Bae Suah is a dreamy time-warp of a novel that complicates our relationship with reality.
Cruyff’s Turn on the World Stage
Daniel Friedman reviews “My Turn: A Life of Total Football” by Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff.
I’m Glad That Happened to You
Andrew Schenker explores Aaron Gilbreath's inner life.
Viennese Modernism
Marjorie Perloff’s account of a world no longer there as if it were in the texts of Viennese modernism.
Speculative Constitutions: Gerald Vizenor’s “Treaty Shirts”
Stina Attebery on Gerald Vizenor's newest novel.
Teaching in a Tough School
Ed Boland’s year of teaching in a tough school in New York City.
How Rock and Roll Became White
Colin Vanderburg reviews Jack Hamilton’s “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination.”
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