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Desperately Looking for Others
Science fiction’s quest for otherness has gone global.
All Reviews
Movement Science
The polarized nature of the migration debate does little to advance our understanding of the issue, which is why Tara Zahra’s new book is so timely.
“There Are No Rules for Coloring”: Chris Offutt on His Father
A review of Chris Offutt’s memoir of his father, a science-fiction writer and pornographer.
Shaping the Future of War: The Important Questions
A look at two books, Christopher Coker's "Future War" and August Cole and P. W. Singer's "Ghost Fleet."
Comments Are Closed
Dana Spiotta’s "Innocents and Others" made me think about the shame I hear and project when I eavesdrop (unwillingly) on people sitting near me at the café.
That’s Inspiration!: Rereading Annie Dillard
Sometimes aesthetic beauty is a window, sometimes it is a curtain. Annie Dillard makes beautiful work either way.
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by James Tate and Sam Taylor
Lisa Russ Spaar looks to poets Sam Taylor and James Tate to explay why the two fundamental modes of lyric poetry are crying and laughing.
The Sins of the Father
Lawyers by trade are storytellers, and good lawyers tell good stories — Anthony Franze’s book is a case in point.
An Ordinary Life
Fiona McFarlane's Australians tend to be placid and remote adept at minimizing their desires, and sometimes poignantly, sometimes frighteningly conformist.
“Black Dove”: Ana Castillo’s Memoir of Motherhood
Ana Castillo has a new memoir about being a daughter, and being a mother.
Beyond the Matrimonial Horizon
An adaptation that feels at once deeply faithful and impious.
Narrative as Provocation
Douglas Piccinnini suspends and electrifies narration.
From Bauhaus to Black Mountain: German Émigrés and the Birth of American Modernism
A look at the history and legacy of Black Mountain College.
Koch World
Jane Mayer’s "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" is almost too good for its own good.
Inside and Outside: When Tourists Visit Prison
"Incarceration Nations" is a book that doesn’t entirely make up its mind
The Comfort of War: Pat Barker’s World War II Trilogy
The beginning of Pat Barker’s novel "Noonday" raises the question of whether we are too saturated by fictions that play to our fascination with World War II
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