The Devil in the Shape of a Preschool Teacher
Richard Beck argues that day care ritual abuse trials of the 1980s were a vengeful response to a changing social order poised to grant women new freedoms.
All Reviews
Profoundly American
Kevin Hart reviews Marilynne Robinson's recent collection of essays.
Deep Roots
On "South Toward Home" by Margaret Eby.
The Unapologetic Pursuit of Pleasure
Rancourt's undertakings require the kind of bravura that emerges from a heroically unapologetic pursuit of pleasure.
Game of Tomes
David Mitchell draws from a deep well of supernatural horror that has inspired writers from Henry James to Shirley Jackson.
Brief Cases
"Brief Encounters" has left this reader grateful for its abundant gifts; grateful too that it doesn't overstay its welcome.
They All Knew Jack
Robinson suggests that this "mystery" is the result of a late-Victorian conspiracy.
Intimate with the Enemy: Why You Ought to Have Lunch with a Bigot
This collection of essays troubles our desire for intimacy, our desire that others be recognizable, familiar, and our relations with them comfortable.
Mansion of the Spirit
Leaving the United States wasn’t easy for Cisneros.
Why Build a Universe?
Does the world embody beautiful ideas?
Remaking American Environmentalism
Jedediah Purdy has written a big book, taking up a set of profound environmental questions and offering sweeping answers.
The David Mitchell Übernovel: Brian Finney Reviews “Slade House”
Like all Mitchell's novels, "Slade House" belongs to the same Übernovel he has been constructing from the beginning while it remains a self-contained unit.
Bolaño’s Teeth: Valeria Luiselli and the Renaissance of Mexican Literature
"The Story of My Teeth" is a story of how art becomes a commodity, and a record of its own coming into being.
Let Them Have Debt: Money and the French Revolution
Spang’s Stuff and Money makes a powerful argument that politics and the economy were intimately linked in determining the French Revolution’s course.
Learning Black Lives Matter
"Black Lives Matter" explores the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, and the treatment of African Americans by authorities.
Synthetics
Wayne Koestenbaum, in his recent "The Pink Trance Notebooks," says, "— don't / keep saying 'Stabat Mater' / as if it meant anything —."
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