Galloway’s Non-Digital Introduction to Laruelle
A non-philosophy for a digital age.
All Reviews
Blaming the Internet Is Not the Answer
Evan Selinger reviews Andrew Keen's "The Internet Is Not the Answer"
Beyond Bukowski
Sophie Rachmuhl’s ‘A Higher Form of Politics’ explains how Los Angeles poetry thrived throughout the city from Venice to Watts.
Why Pronouns Matter
Mary Norris, longtime comma queen for "The New Yorker," explains the magazine's insane commas and legendarily fussy editing practices.
What Happened: A Look at Joseph Heller’s Forgotten Novel
What distinguishes "Something Happened" from its thematic predecessors is the application of the same untamable wildness that touched "Catch-22."
Unrealized Constraints in Love and in Literature
Vivek Shraya mixes Hindu mythology with the coming-of-age story of a nameless, Canadian, bisexual young man in Edmonton.
Beyond the Shadow of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell’s restless curiosity and his desire to sit at the feet of greatness and listen made him the ur-TED talk audience member.
Brave New Worlds
The origin of the filmed work of art.
A Guide to Millennial Femininity
Elena Avanzas Álvarez discusses the gender performance critique within Jessica Knoll's novel.
The Method Singer
In his new biography, John Szwed argues Billie Holiday was a method actor: she burrowed to the core of the song, determined what type of person might be voicing such sentiments in what kind of situation, and let that guide her interpretation of it.
Empty Beds, Empty Wombs: Life Beyond the Blueprint
A look at three books that are designed to help us see what living beyond the marriage blueprint looks like.
Scorched Earth Doctrine
From 1950 to 1953, the air war in Korea became one of the most destructive, relentless, and forgotten American scorched earth campaigns.
The Poet and the Engineer: Forty Years of Angolan Independence
Forty Years of Angolan Independence
Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah
Habeas Viscus is a book that offers us a vital framework for imagining a world where race — where human life — might be otherwise than it is.
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Rae Armantrout and Ye Chun
Rae Armantrout and Ye Chun are poets who go in “quest of” without, to paraphrase Keats, an irritable reaching after any one answer.
Seeing Like an Exile
'Orhan’s Inheritance' traces the history of two families thrust into chaos by the massacre and violent expulsion of over one million Armenians from Ottoman Turkey.
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