The Great Gorsky: A Debut Novel from Vesna Goldsworthy
With her fiction debut, Vesna Goldsworthy achieves notable, if not total success in making a new Gatsby out of a modern-day Russian oligarch in London.
All Reviews
Still Radical 25 Years On
The shock we experience reading Karen Finley’s "Shock Treatment" is, ironically enough, less than the shock its narrator is forced to endure.
The Nine-Fingered Man
"The Other Joseph" is meticulously structured as a book within a book, a journey of two brothers from Louisiana who live their adult lives apart.
Mapping the Family Possible
If same-sex marriage is the first step on this journey, where are we headed, and how do we go the rest of the way?
“Girl Sex 101” Is a Total Joy
Any sex manual worth its salt is an instrument of liberation.
Killing Fiction Meets the Medea Impasse: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” and “Medea”
"Outline" marks the threshold between Cusk’s memoir "Aftermath," where she ruminates on her marriage and its dissolution, and her take on Euripides’s "Medea."
Envisioning Astroculture in the American Hemisphere
"Past Futures" is an exercise in remembering an exuberant, experimental current of artistic production that had a deep engagement with a global astroculture.
Against Happiness
Nikolaj Lübecker's exploration of "The Feel-Bad Film" outlines a theoretical approach to films that allows us to stress their value, and highlight their implicit critique.
Postcards from the Threshold
Joy Williams's stories, especially when read collectively, challenge the plausible and demand a reader's participation, a leap of faith.
A Memoriam for the Indian Soldier
"Farthest Field" is, in some way, a memoriam for the Indian soldiers who died in this war.
War Without End
The horrors of Israel's carnage in Gaza jump out of the pages of Blumenthal's chronicle "The 51 Day War."
The Sahel Sang Back
"Walking with Abel" is a patchwork of culture-colliding exchanges — a careful rendering of one of the world’s last remaining migratory peoples.
How to Endure
"The Dead Ladies Project" is sometimes rollicking, sometimes panicked, but always insightful and moving.
In Ruins
David Baker's 10th collection of poems is itself strikingly ambivalent about science, cherishing the insights it offers into the nonhuman world.
Mathematician, Statesman, Philosopher: The Life of John Maynard Keynes
Keynes, as Keynes, remains largely unknown and unappreciated: reduced to clichés, or, most commonly, invoked as an epithet.
In the Habit
"Gamelife" is really a book about the incompatibility, rather than the affinity, of game life and human life.
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