A Reasonable Response to Ruin
Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City.
All Reviews
Internet Privacy: Stepping Up Our Self-Defense Game
Despite all the coverage "privacy" gets in the post-Snowden world, many of us don’t see what all the fuss is about.
Dangerous to Human
What Hempel and Ciment share, and what is ultimately revealed to be the heart of the novel, is a profound love and respect for dogs.
Brautigan Will Be Brautigan
Retracing Brautigan's tracks allows Allison Green to "grapple" with Brautigan's indifference to the female character in "Trout Fishing," as well as her own.
Hide and Seek: The Problem with Obfuscation
Brunton and Nissenbaum outline a variety of techniques of obfuscation that ordinary people can deploy to camouflage themselves.
The Syntax of Anxiety: Unica Zürn’s Novella
Unica Zürn's novella "The Trumpets of Jericho" takes place in a certain limbo, at the torn seam between verisimilitude and disbelief.
Four Who Made the US Constitution
"The Quartet" should find readership among all those interested in the drama involved in the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
John Cage’s Endless Project
John Cage's "Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" remains full of "good" advice.
Absent Figures in the Frame
No reader should expect a happy ending in Tomine’s fiction.
For the Sake of Another: Matthieu Ricard and the New Altruism
Matthieu Ricard offers a synthesis of prior texts that together offer overwhelming evidence that altruism does not run against the grain of nature.
The Whirring Gears of the Colonialist Machine
The gargantuan endeavor of the Ibis trilogy — an attempt to remedy the absences and silences of received history …
A Deep but Unstable Joy: Gazing at Agnes Martin
A much-repeated idea about a Martin painting is that it isn’t reproducible in print.
Absolved of the Absolute
Frédéric Neyrat is someone to whom we should be paying attention.
Kitsch Meets Kafka
Reading "Europe at Midnight" is a little like unlocking an insane Matryoshka doll.
The Reluctant Angeleno
A review of David Ulin's "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles."
Human Google
A review of Wayne A. Wiegand's "Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library."
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