Lyric Tourism
Joni Tevis on environmental apocalypse, ecotourism, and how lyric can make sense of landscape.
All Reviews
Fortune’s Fool
Peter Birkenhead reviews Terry Alford's biography of John Wilkes Booth.
Death and Other Holes: The Novels of Viola Di Grado
There is a certain circularity to Viola Di Grado's novels, in which all paths inevitably begin from and lead to other holes, from cradle to grave.
Mid-Career: Three Poets and their Fourth Books
Rigoberto Gonzalez on the fourth books of three mid-career poets: Ada Limon, Kyle Dargan, and Quan Barry.
Kids in the Aftermath: Katrina in Young Adult Fiction
Children's and young adult fiction about Hurricane Katrina helps shape cultural understanding of social justice.
Taking Things By Surprise
The Life of Things, the Love of Things by Remo Bodei arrives at an interesting moment in the burgeoning conversation about objects, things, and matter.
What Rubbish They Publish
The Prank proves Anton Chekhov could write hilarious stories from an early age.
A Therapeutic Cartography
On Peter Harrison's latest book The Territories of Science and Religion
Language Lessons
The Way Things Were is about one of author Aatish Taseer’s obsessions: the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit.
Fiction as Memoir as Fiction: Tomás González’s “In the Beginning Was the Sea”
Michael Thomsen examines the work of Tomás González — specifically his first novel published in English, In the Beginning Was the Sea.
In an Empire of the Dead
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen writes a lively study of inanimate stone and connects deep ecology to new materialism.
Choices Aren’t Even Choices
By choosing love, tranquility, and comfort, in how did i get here? Jesse Browner despairs that he has sold himself out on the most fundamental level.
Defining the Dissident
Hirsi Ali is not a dissident — she effectively deploys her past for maximum gain in the divisive political realities of her present.
Company of One: The Fate of Democracy in an Age of Neoliberalism
Dr. Peter Gratton explores and critiques two separate authors takes on the fate of democracy.
Redefining Travel, Re-experiencing Paris
City Secrets Paris is a travel guide that curates intimate and personality-filled experiences of the city.
Untrue Crime
A masterfully constructed hall of mirrors, Edgar Award–winning true crime writer Harry N. MacLean's "The Joy of Killing" reinvents the conventional thriller.
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