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Lifestyles of the Rich and the Abject
Caroline Tracey explores, via Dahlia de la Cerda’s “Reservoir Bitches,” the possibilities and limits of women’s agency on the fringes of Mexico’s narcosphere.
All Reviews
Is It Time to Have Real Universal Suffrage in the United States?
Paul Finkelman reviews Richard L. Hasen’s “A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.”
Every Abyss Is a Matter of Time
Alina Stefanescu reviews “The Use of Photography” by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, newly translated into English by Alison L. Strayer.
A Technique for Managing the Obliteration of My Self
James Webster reviews Lucy Ives’s essay collection “An Image of My Name Enters America.”
Cockfighter of the Year
Dylan Adamson reviews Kier-La Janisse’s “Cockfight: A Fable of Failure,” a book about the 1974 film “Cockfighter.”
A Child Makes a Future, and What Future Had We?
Carol Senf reviews Kathe Koja’s “Catherine the Ghost.”
The Poetic Origins of Middle-earth
Christian Kriticos reviews “The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien.”
Restored Particulars
Nathan Blansett reviews Margaret Ross’s poetry collection “Saturday.”
One Community, Undivided, Uniquely on This Side of the Border
Frank Bergon reviews two new collections from Dagoberto Gilb: “New Testaments” and “A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands.”
More Than an Object of Vardolatry
Conor Williams reviews Carrie Rickey’s “A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda.”
Blessed Are the Forgetful
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Annie Berke recalls Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” a love story about memory loss, for its 20th anniversary.
The Story of a Generation
Michele Willens reviews Connie Chung’s memoir, which recalls her barrier-shattering career in TV news journalism.
A Chaos of Privilege and Prejudice
Charlie Tyson identifies a political turn in Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel, “Our Evenings.”
Behind All the Plaster
Rhian Sasseen reviews Lauren Elkin’s “Scaffolding.”
The Definitive History of Neo-Nazi Edgelords
Jordan Carroll reviews Spencer Sunshine’s “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s ‘Siege.’”
Russia’s Media-Ideological Complex
Michael David-Fox reviews Mikhail Suslov’s “Putinism—Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology.”
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