Is There Need for “The New Wild”?: The New Ecological Quarrels
Pearce takes aim at the edifice that has coalesced around conservation efforts in the face of invasion.
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The Gentrification of Boston’s South End
What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not.
The Ground Beneath His Feet
Veteran Rushdie readers will find in his most recent novel, "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," familiar hallmarks of his imagination.
Eastern Europe: Return to Normality?
The supreme irony: just as Central Europe achieves "normal" status, joining the EU, the EU threatens to split apart.
An Interrupted Connection
Hans Bredow's world project highlights the central connecting threads of Markus Krajewski's failed global ventures prior to World War I.
Wilderness, Innocence, and Responsibility
How can we as individuals and as a nation best care for the damages — environmental, social, cultural — we’ve done?
Nostalgia for Detritus
"After the Saucers Landed" is a work of metafictional science fiction that plays with the postmodern themes of identity, nostalgia, and commodity-culture.
Pop Music, Not Confession
Weighing in at a hefty 670 pages, "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink" is an impressively detailed, career-spanning narrative.
A Lawyer for Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Beyond his impressive legal career, Charles Rembar wrote three fascinating books, which have just been released in ebook format.
Locked Up in America: The Essay in the Age of Mass Incarceration
"Fourth City" intervenes in an ongoing public debate about prisons by providing space for prisoners themselves to enter the discussion.
The Evolution of a Writer
Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses Joyce Carol Oates's "The Lost Landscape."
The Questionable Orthodoxy of Genres
“Hybrid genres,” and the questionable orthodoxy of traditional genres, are subjects that continue to vex literary theory.
Superheroes in a Time of Terror: Rushdie’s 1001 Nights
Comic books, climate change, and caliphates in Salman Rushdie's "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights."
Is There Still Hope?: A Climatologist’s Perspective
Will we tackle this problem in time?
Going Deep in the “Magic South”
"There is no popular category known as Northern literature," Eby reminds us in "South Toward Home."
Are You Out of Your Mind?
We are living through an unprecedented crisis of attention.