Patient Atavism
Throughout Tessa Hadley's "The Past," there remains a seemingly impassable distance between the world of women and the world of men.
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Shoggoths in a Segregated America
Matt Ruff's new novel, "Lovecraft Country," is set in Jim Crow America, long after Lovecraft's death in 1937.
Book of Mysteries
David Huddle has a new poetry collection, his 19th book: "Dream Sender."
Life During Wartime
Mahmoud Saeed's "A Portal in Space" recalls an Iraq of moderate religious life, rule of law, and middle-class aspiration.
When Fiction Meets Dentistry
On Stephen King's most recent work, "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories."
Poetry in Motion
"Sinatra's Century" offers multiple views of a subject that fascinates its author.
A Menagerie of Inexplicable Animal Flesh
Each piece in "A Collapse of Horses" stands alone as a tale that combines "literary" and "horror" elements in novel ways that blur genre distinctions.
The Real Paris
Jérémie Guez's "Eyes Full of Empty" is worth a read, for the acutely drawn window it provides on the contemporary metropolitan French experience.
Child of Our History: Susan Howe’s Remarkable Essays
In Susan Howe's work, poetry and prose are often impossible to disentangle.
A California Commonist
One of the important additions "Woody Guthrie L.A." makes is a grappling, in a couple of chapters, with Woody’s initial embrace of white supremacy.
Fear of an Ill Planet: On the Importance of Sickness and the Demands of Otherness
In the 21st century are we the sick, or are they us?
Removing Humans from the AI Loop — Should We Panic?
Is AI a threat to humankind?
The Spectres of the Silver Screen
This renewed sense of what horror fiction can do will resonate deeply for readers who find themselves overwhelmed by the increasingly prominent and disturbing images of the real world.
Los Angeles, Fresno, and the Misanthrope
Not just another dark Hollywood satire: Aris Janigian and his "Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont."
Revelation or Hallucination?
Sigal Samuel keeps us guessing in her first novel.
City of Heaven and Hell
Of course, old Istanbul was no bed of roses.
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