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Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited
Dennis Wilson Wise reviews two books on Tolkien and the challenges Tolkien studies faces when engaging the wider discipline.
All Reviews
The Source of All Amazement
M. Keith Booker reviews “Playground” by Richard Powers.
To Linger in the Wisdom of Doubt
Alessia Degraeve reviews Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain.”
Clear Eyes, Empty Town, Can’t Win
Will Leitch considers the heartbreak of small-town football in his review of John M. Glionna’s “No Friday Night Lights.”
Danger Done Safely
Elizabeth Alsop investigates how the latest season of “Only Murders in the Building” reveals the pleasures and limits of coziness, in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
More than Human
Erika Howsare reviews Kapka Kassabova’s “Anima: A Wild Pastoral.”
Tastes Like Home
Yangyang Cheng reviews Michelle T. King’s “Chop Fry Watch Learn” and Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
Why Don’t We Know Who Bombed Nashville?
Who pulled off the unsolved bombings in Nashville? Jane Marcellus reviews “Dynamite Nashville” by Betsy Phillips, which advances an intriguing possibility.
Seeing in the Half-Light
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Rachel Kushner’s divisive new novel, “Creation Lake”—much of the commentary around which feels “personal.”
Explaining Chinese Food—and China
Vincent Chow reviews Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” and Thomas David DuBois’s “China in Seven Banquets.”
You Can’t Take It With You?
Julia Berick reviews “Entitlement,” the fourth novel from Rumaan Alam.
A Gospel of Violence
Andrew DeCort reviews Tom Gardner’s “The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia.”
A Precarious, Provisional Order
Claire Foster reviews Daniel Saldaña París’s “Planes Flying over a Monster,” newly translated by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman.
Into the Bottomless Pit
Cory Oldweiler reviews Ellen Elias-Bursać’s new translation of Croatian author Damir Karakaš’s “Celebration.”
Myths Die Hard
Parker Hatley reviews Gerald Martin’s updated translation of the Guatemalan novel “Men of Maize” by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Give a Middle Way a Chance
Eamon McGrath reviews Ralph Hubbell’s new translation of Oğuz Atay’s story collection, “Waiting for the Fear.”
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