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Why Does Mike the Millennial Meander?
Amy Silverberg on Mike Roberts's "Cannibals in Love."
All Reviews
Get Your Sea Legs for Ha Jin’s “The Boat Rocker”
Nandini Balial on Ha Jin's new novel.
Baptized in Snow: Vladimir Arsenyev and Russian Empire in the Far East
Daniel Elkind appreciates the legacy of Russian explorer and naturalist Vladimir Arsenyev.
A Way of Taking in the World
Sven Birkerts on Teju Cole's new essay collection, "Known and Strange Things."
Revolutionary Nostalgia
Robert Minto sorts through the “The Shipwrecked Mind” by Mark Lilla.
Adrift in the Present: On Mark Lilla’s “The Shipwrecked Mind”
Mark Lilla’s “The Shipwrecked Mind” examines what it means to be a political reactionary.
The Memoir’s Hostage: On Sulome Anderson’s “The Hostage’s Daughter”
Emmett Rensin wrestles with the genre of “The Hostage’s Daughter” by Sulome Anderson.
A Glitter-Run Through History: Simon Reynolds’s “Shock and Awe”
Chris O’Leary reviews Simon Reynolds’s “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century.”
Repeating the Mistakes of the Past in “The New Trail of Tears”
Matthew L. M. Fletcher takes issue with Riley’s screed “The New Trail of Tears.”
The Danger of Amnesia: John Shannon’s “The Taking of the Waters”
Mike Harris reintroduces a three-generation saga novel of the American Left, “The Taking of the Waters” by John Shannon.
Bobos in Paris: The Rise and Fall of a Multicultural Fantasy
Michael C. Behrent interprets the bobo dream of multicultural France in “Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud” by Géraldine Smith.
Being Black and Breathing: On “Blackpentecostal Breath”
Jean-Thomas Tremblay on Ashon T. Crawley's "Blackpentecostal Breath."
Exorcising the Communist Past: Michal Viewegh’s “Bliss Was It In Bohemia”
Andrei Rogatchevski appreciates the cheerfulness of “Bliss Was It In Bohemia” by Michal Viewegh.
Notebook or Novel? Patrick Modiano’s “The Black Notebook”
Patrick Modiano’s “The Black Notebook” is his latest to be translated into English.
Vulgar and Unsightly: Adrian Nathan West’s J’accuse Against Extremely Degrading Pornography
Houman Barekat delves into “The Aesthetics of Degradation” by Adrian Nathan West.
The Dunce Gets a Doorstop: A Life of Jean Cocteau
Kevin McMahon takes the measure of “Jean Cocteau: A Life” by Claude Arnaud.
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