Myths as Mitochondria
One of the most refreshing things about Reed's world is that it is true speculative fiction.
All Reviews
As Ever, the River
As ever, the river. In Green's poetry the river is a marker of continuity.
Ex-Soviets Adopt America
Fishman returns to the question of generational transmission he so provocatively pried open in "A Replacement Life."
Why We Need the Dead
What we do with dead bodies matters.
Is the Path to Racial Health Equity Paved with “Reparations”? The Politics of Health, Part II
The history of American racial health "disparities" between whites and blacks begins with some of the former forcing some of the latter onto slave ships.
Love’s Inequality
The logic of marriage equality carries with it a damaged history of racial and sexual exclusion that the marriage movement ignores at its peril.
Empire, Nation, and Time
"The Grace of Kings" is novel about a nation experiencing revolution as it transitions from one form of empire to another.
The Triumph of Atheism
"Fighting God" is not a polemic crafted to turn the faithful into nonbelievers, but a secular activist's manual.
Back to the Barricades
A history of insurrectionary episodes by Eric Hazan.
The Deep Wound
A writer's best work tends to acknowledge early obsessions, especially the conflicted ones.
The Searcher of Patterns and the Keeper of Things
Two new books suggest that if this turns out to be a new era in the humanities, it won't be for the reasons we've suspected.
Five Kinds of High-End-LA-centric Madness
In "West of Eden," LA's notable families spin fictions of happy family life, while the reality is generations of trustafarians raised by distracted wolves.
Who Was Sharon Tate?
Sanders's first contribution was to see Manson as an individual — not a symbol.
The Haunted Library of Gene Wolfe
A new ghost story by Gene Wolfe.
Englishness in an Apocalypse
"The Wake," Paul Kingsnorth's deliriously experimental imagining of the Norman Conquest as both natural and cultural apocalypse, is like Buccmaster's fens.
The Well-Fathered Daughter
Diana Wagman reviews Gloria Norris's "KooKooLand: A Memoir," about the strange and awful ways of love.
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