Competition and Coexistence: A Pushmi-Pullyu Perspective
Bad science is bad religion: on Greg Graffin's "Population Wars."
All Reviews
The Poetry of Environmental Disaster
Joanna Klink, the Romantic tradition, and poetry in the time of environmental disaster.
Rusted Development: The Fight Against Corrosion Creep
Rust cannot be stopped: Jonathan Waldman on our long war against rust.
Vladimir Nabokov, American Vagabond
Vladimir Nabokov wasn’t born in the USA — and that made his take on America important.
Crisis on Earth-33!
Our beloved superheroes know that we exist, and they are really, really mad at us for what we have done to them.
Too Much Light
On F.H. Batacan and Filipino noir.
The Past Is Useless
Not only in interviews but in the novels themselves, Knausgaard has proven his own best critic.
Culture War: What Is It Good For?
Andrew Hartman's detailed account of the extended "shouting match" about America's identity, a.k.a. the culture wars.
A Ghoulish Glass Half-Full: Best Horror
The stories within "The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7," edited by Ellen Datlow, feature the usual assortment of terrors.
Andrei Bitov, Russian Politics, and Postmodernism
Known for his sharp wit and idiosyncratic prose, Andrei Bitov has become a curious fixture within the Russian literary establishment.
Find this, Americans, and get it into your bones
— The Dying Grass and other Dreams of William T. Vollmann
What Can “Go Set a Watchman” Teach Us That “To Kill a Mockingbird” Cannot?
Go Set a Watchman is not a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee intended it to be an entirely different book.
Manifold Destiny
Vollmann wishes for a release from ahistoricism that deprives Americans of the perspective needed to grapple capably with problems arising in the present.
The Brutal Lyricism of Isaac Babel
Lyricism and the brutality of war occur side by side with electric results in a new translation of Isaac Babel by Boris Dralyuk.
Peaking Behind the Curtains of Adieux
With "Tomb(e)," Cixous pierces into the nature of love and jealousy.
A Visit from the Past
Vu Tran’s novel, Dragonfish, is partly mystery, partly an immigrant story, and partly about loss and heartbreak.
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