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A Moment of Doubt, or Nearly So
Zachary Gillan reviews Brian Evenson’s new collection “Good Night, Sleep Tight.”
All Reviews
A Trapdoor of Her Own
Emmeline Clein considers girls, games, and heterosexual monogamy in her review of Sally Rooney’s new novel, “Intermezzo.”
Seeing Like a Simulation
Reviewing Chaim Gingold’s “Building SimCity,” Celine Nguyen finds similarities between tech billionaires’ attempts to build a utopian city in Solano, California, and being a godlike player in “SimCity.”
Kipling in Langley
Was the CIA more a product of the 19th-century Great Game than the 20th-century Cold War? Greg Barnhisel reviews “The CIA: An Imperial History” by Hugh Wilford.
American Mythology
Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology? Tom Zoellner looks at “A Great Disorder” by Richard Slotkin.
Refuge as a Way of Life
Michael McGhee reviews “Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge” by David E. Cooper.
Self-Flagellation, Not Self-Discovery
Carolina Abbott Galvão Reviews Clara Drummond’s “Role Play,” translated by Daniel Hahn.
The Weight of Estrangement
Grace Linden reviews Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Life Finds a Way
Anne Sawyier reviews Hannah McGregor’s new book, “Clever Girl: Jurassic Park” in the context of big tech’s takeover of Hollywood.
They Haven’t Kept Austin Weird
Bill Thompson reviews Alex Hannaford’s “Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City.”
Everyone’s from Somewhere
Matthew Ritchie reviews “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib.
Everyone Is Implicated
Randy Rosenthal reviews Juliet Grames’s new Italian mystery "The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia."
The Scar of a Language
Katharina Volckmer reviews Pol Guasch’s “Napalm in the Heart,” translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
The Dark Shadow of the Chinese Dream
Sasha Karsavina examines Mingwei Song’s “Fear of Seeing” and the first two books of Han Song’s “Hospital” trilogy.
Arizona! You Won’t Believe It!
Michael Downs reviews Richard Grant’s “A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona.”
A Politics to Conjure a People
Carmen E. Lamas reviews Renee Hudson’s “Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas.”
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