The Thief, The Friend, His Wife, and Her Lover
Adulterous prurience served cold.
All Reviews
Does Science Need Hollywood?
When it comes to story, we should all be Mark Watney.
Where Does Inequality Come From?
Harry Frankfurt has elegantly and brilliantly undergirded the centrist liberal's rejection of equality as a goal.
About a Girl
On the sesquicentennial of Lewis Carroll's famous story, Alice remains vaguely countercultural, obscurely intellectual, somewhat feminist — and absolutely vital to modern culture.
Between Mansfield Park and Bradburyland
"Gifts for the One Who Comes After" moves freely between Mansfield Park and Bradburyland, finding that hidden area where the two overlap.
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is always being updated.
Withstanding Scrutiny
Eve Wood reviews Adam Kirsch's "Emblems of the Passing World," a book combining his own poems and the photography of August Sander.
The Matter of Frenchness
The matter of “Frenchness,” and its competing hard and soft contours, is at the heart of both Modiano’s and Houellebecq’s most recent books.
Left Behind: Why Marxists Need Anarchists, and Vice Versa
Any history of anarchism — like Andrew Cornell's new book "Unruly Equality" — is a third-place history of leftism.
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Carl Phillips
How Carl Phillips became one of America's most eminent writers.
Survival Tactics
"Words are actions," Andy Robinson writes. "They can caress or kill."
That Chicano Thing
Desiree Zamorano reviews "The Skull of Pancho Villa."
The Real Science Behind Paranormal Phenomena
A Bromance of Bankers
Murray took five careful years to craft "The Mark and the Void," which exceeds "Skippy Dies" in wit and vigor and is a more polished and mature work.
On Trust in Crime Fiction
Angel luis Colón reviews Robert Crais's The Promise.
Pulp Metaphysics
Rob Latham reviews Michael Moorcock's "The Whispering Swarm."
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