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Life Buoys and Skin Tags
Robert Kiely reviews Timothy Thornton’s “Candles and Water.”
All Reviews
When Art Evolves, We Evolve
Brendan Riley reviews Cisco Bradley’s “The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront.”
Security Theater
Adam Straus reviews Richard Beck’s “Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life.”
A Reluctant Übermensch
D. Harlan Wilson reviews Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s “The Book of Elsewhere.”
New Languages, New Music
Rosanna Young Oh reviews Jimin Seo’s "OSSIA."
Continuing Peril
Sarah Yanni reviews Cheryl Clarke’s “Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems.”
The Comfort of Memory
Leo Lasdun reviews two debut novels at the end(?) of alt-lit: Gabriel Smith’s “Brat” and Matthew Davis’s “Let Me Try Again.”
You Dirty Beasts
Simon Lee reviews “Beasts of England” by Adam Biles, an update to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
A Singular Man
Jim Berg reviews Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.”
The Impossibility of Children’s Television
Madeline Ullrich explores the contradictions of “children’s television” in the Max/ID series “Quiet on Set” and Jane Schoenbrun’s film “I Saw the TV Glow.”
How Are We Not Talking About This All the Time?
Victoria Sturtevant reviews Pamela Adlon’s new film “Babes.”
Slavery’s Tortured Figure
J. R. Kerr-Ritchie reviews Randy M. Browne’s “The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery.”
How to Hug a Cactus Tree
Paul Allen Anderson reviews Ann Powers’s “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.”
Too Little, Too Late for TV’s Woman Writer?
Annie Berke considers the figure of the woman writer in the popular TV series “Bridgerton” and “Hacks,” in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
The Worst Sect of People
Sheila McClear reviews “Men Have Called Her Crazy,” a supposed tell-all memoir by Anna Marie Tendler.
The Glory and Freedom of Our Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished
Nick Owchar reviews Reuben Woolley’s new translation of Andrey Kurkov’s “Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv.”
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