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Look at Your Game, Girl
Emma Cline’s “The Girls” is the coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old girl who falls in with a Manson-like cult just months before a night of brutal murders.
All Reviews
Dev Developing: Ronan Fanning’s “Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power”
The political biography of Éamon de Valera and his time in power in Ireland.
The BangClash of Modernities
Susan Stanford Friedman knows the enemy and it is she.
Nothing Inorganic
Readers compelled by turns to materialism, ecology, and ontology could hardly hope for a better introduction to lesser-known features of Thoreau’s work.
A Stronger Constitution: Carol Berkin’s “The Bill of Rights”
Stephen Rohde reviews a book on of one of our nation’s most important political and historical documents: The Bill of Rights.
Slavery and the Weight of the Past
A review of Yaa Gyasi's new novel "Homegoing."
Behind the Grunt: Finding the Soul of the Godfather of Soul
James McBride adds flesh and bone to musical myth.
Travels in the Interior
Budget travel tips from an 18th-century aristocrat.
Blame Ageism
How ugly is ageism in the United States?
The Emerging Genre of Slut Lit
The emerging genre of Slut Lit reminds us how women’s bodies have always been a sort of Rorschach test for society’s deeper anxieties about women’s roles.
Inheriting Injustice and Perpetuating Impunity: What You Didn’t Know About Guantánamo
What must count among Obama’s sharpest regrets is the way in which he mishandled Guantanamo.
A Record of Love, One Letter at a Time
With the poetry of “Monograph”, Simeon Berry is teaching us that how we pay attention to life can make our observations poetry.
The Absurdity of Obscenity
Jeremy Geltzer's "Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures" looks at the salacious movies that stretched the First Amendment and the censors that stifled them.
Everybody Wants a Piece of Milton
A review of Jennifer Wallace's new novel about the fate of John Milton’s corpse.
The Inside Outsider: On Dave Hickey’s Criticism
Dave Hickey’s new collection “25 Women: Essays on Their Art” has been damned for not foregrounding gender in its analysis.
Hollywood’s Punks
"Under the Big Black Sun" conveys how exciting and important it felt to get up on a stage and scream into a mic to other passionate freaks at a shitty dive.
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