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Resuscitating the Psychedelic Sensibility
Jon Savage’s "1966" looks at a pivotal year in history via its music.
All Reviews
Keep Calm and Carry On
Gillian Terzis reviews Owen Hatherley's "The Ministry of Nostalgia".
The Flaws of Memory
Miranda Kennedy reviews "The Latter Days", Judith Freeman's memoir about growing up Mormon.
Infinite Worlds, Ordinary and Extraordinary
At its heart, Nina Allan's “The Race” is a story of split identities. Lives diverted by violence are sometimes restored, and sometimes left incomplete.
Defying the Concept of Diminishing Returns
Alex Segura reviews “King Maybe” by Timothy Hallinan, his latest in the Junior Bender series.
Society Is Rigged
Matt King reviews Jesse Ball's "How to Set a Fire and Why".
Poet of The The: “The Darkening Trapeze” by Larry Levis
The last collection of poetry from Larry Levis is miraculous and heartbreaking.
When a Nation Collapses
South Sudan is a country that almost everybody shamefully forgets.
Pallacorda, Or What the Hell Has Happened in Mexico
The world is one long struggle, and the bad guy always wins. Yet, we have "Sudden Death", a novel so beautiful that it might take your breath away.
The Humiliation Machine
“The Way to the Spring” makes us understand that the creation of this kind of Palestinian despair is what the Israeli humiliation machine hopes to produce.
Like a Poem: On Ben Lerner’s “The Hatred of Poetry”
Brandon Kreitler on Ben Lerner's "The Hatred of Poetry".
Damned Poetry: On Ben Lerner’s “The Hatred of Poetry"
Becca Rothfeld on Ben Lerner's "The Hatred of Poetry".
Voyeur, Collector, Amateur Sleuth
Tom Lutz almost gets hitched in Swaziland.
The Socialist Singularity
Agustín de Rojas’s novel of cybernetic communism reintroduces English-speaking readers to the left-utopian tradition in science fiction.
Happy with Tears: On Melancholy as a Hungarian Condition
Nicky Loomis on "Melancholy" by László F. Földényi.
Voices from Solitary Confinement
Stephen Lurie reviews "Hell Is a Very Small Room".
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