Gushing and Gleeking
Carly Hallman maps out a surreal and wobbly moral universe in her bold debut, "Year of the Goose."
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“Made in China”
A New Way of Looking: Colum McCann and the Empathy of His Fiction
The embrace of otherness, of stepping outside the self, typifies Colum McCann's career.
The Lawlessness of Medicine
Mukherjee's laws of medicine are laws of uncertainty, imprecision, and incompleteness.
“Malleable Memory”
For Roberge, all scraps of remembrance coexist on the page, as if to remind us that memory is associative.
Five Blockbuster Evolutionary Insights and One Wild Life: Robert Trivers
Robert Trivers is the preeminent living evolutionist of our time.
A Peculiar Oceanography
In "The Island of Knowledge," Marcelo Gleiser wants to forge a third way between scientism and obscurantism.
Quiet, Too Quiet
Cixin Liu's "The Dark Forest" takes up the Fermi Paradox as one of its central narrative and thematic problems.
Living in the Wreckage
The debut issue of "Salvage" engages with the hopeful and pessimistic realities of this ruined and dead world.
Marriage in Meltdown
What emerges most powerfully from "The Longest Night" is a kind of quiet wonder at how a person can come to exist in another.
The Armageddon of New China
László Krasznahorkai's "Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens" chronicles a pilgrimage in search of the authentic China.
The Russian Soul: Janet Fitch on Eugene Vodolazkin
"Laurus" is no seamless dream of Russia's past but a very clever, self-aware contemporary novel that nevertheless holds that dream deep in its heart.
A “Just and Liberal” Vision of War
Grandin wants us to think about "the outsized role" Kissinger "had in creating the world we live in today, which accepts endless war as a matter of course."
Time for Something Different
Michael Jackson’s “definitive” biographers have all failed to excavate the human being from the mythology and misinformation built up over the decades.
Book of Revelations
Rachel Cantor's "Good on Paper" is an exploration of the chasm between languages and people.
Grief and Transformation
"The Narrow Door" is a memoir about how grief transforms us.
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