Witches Brew (or the Perfect Coffee Shop Companion)
"Um, is Patti Smith a Crazy Cat Lady?"
All Reviews
Family History
"It's difficult today to think of lobotomy as surgery, and not torture."
A Fortress of Solitude
"The Weight of Things" is the tip of an iceberg of desolation.
Left Off the Map
Films from the East Asia region are rarely inscribed, by general consensus, into the traditional noir canon.
What Is Left to Say About Gore Vidal?
Since his death in 2012, Gore Vidal's vice has been further disclosed in splashy books. Jay Parini's "Empire of Self," however, is a new and full biography.
Midcentury California Cohousing
Crestwood Hills is the only successful, large-scale, modern cooperative housing development in the western United States.
Purple Gold
Mark Anderson obliterated a mind-boggling $250 million dollars’ worth of wines.
A Poet’s Guide to Los Angeles
"Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond" is a wonderfully unsystematic Baedeker's guide to LA.
Trust Your Demon
In celebration of Halloween, Brian Cremins writes about Roger Zelazny's "A Night in the Lonesome October."
Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography
Andrew DeGraff's "Plotted: A Literary Atlas" is a book of maps based on great works of literature.
More than One-Liners: A New Biography of Gore Vidal
"Perhaps that's the best we can say about anybody who's gone: we could do with him now."
Destroy to Create
"Death in Veracruz" is the first novel written by Camín to be translated into English.
“The Price of Listening”: James Baldwin, Black Music, and Black Lives
On Ed Pavlić's "Who Can Afford To Improvise: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners"
Punctuation: Anselm Kiefer’s Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99
Trinie Dalton writes about the concepts of artistic identity, preoccupation, and engrossment in Anselm Kiefer's "Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99."
Break It Open
Rocco Samuele reviews Paul Hoffman's "The Man Who Only Loved Numbers."
Rethinking the Geopolitics of Energy
Jones sees the current situation as an "order without parallel in human history."
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