Unkillable Mockingbird
Go Set A Watchman's usefulness lies in its push toward self-examination and reflexivity.
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An Automobile Club in Egypt
Once the story careens into British-occupied Egypt, the reader of Al Aswany’s third novel begins to understand that this book isn’t at all about automobiles, or even really about Egypt.
Free and Fearless Inquiry
Cora Du Bois was one of the first female anthropologists and a talented ethnographer whose work focused on social psychology.
Biology, Destiny, Purity
Urmila Seshagiri reviews Jonathan Franzen's "Purity."
The Madness of Gangsta Rap
"Diary of a Madman" tries to simultaneously hold color and depression — life and death — in a single frame.
Looking for “Mr. West”
"Mr. West" is an exploration of celebrity in the form of poetry.
The Final Installment of the Ibis Trilogy
Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy comes to a conclusion with "Flood of Fire."
Après Katrina, Le Déluge
Gary Rivlin's "Katrina: After the Flood" argues that "Katrina was pretext for ridding New Orleans of enough blacks … so that whites were once again in the majority."
Katrina’s Bullets: Ronnie Greene on Police Violence
To read Ronnie Greene’s Shots on the Bridge in the time of Black Lives Matter is to confront rage.
Fail Slow, Fail Hard
Once you start looking for them, Heideggerians are everywhere. Stop hiding from Heidegger.
Brand Anorexia: Alexandra Kleeman
"You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine," the new novel by Alexandra Kleeman, is obsessed with flesh.
Two Scenes from the Finnish Diaspora: Maria Takolander and Niina Pollari
For both Takolander and Pollari, the loss they feel is due a changed relationship not just with national borders, but with their own histories.
Will Robots Inherit the Earth?
How much technology should we be willing to use to stay alive? Will robots inherit the earth?
Representing Los Angeles: Nina Revoyr’s “Lost Canyon”
Désirée Zamorano on representation and Los Angeles in Nina Revoyr’s new novel.
Saint Joan
"Much of Didion's writing about LA reads not as accurate description of the city but as penance for her great sin of leaving New York."
Coorie Doon: Dirda’s Year of Reading
Michael Dirda writes about reading, but do we want to read it?
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