Windy City Gothic: The Resurrection of “The Death of the Detective”
Mark Smith's "Death of the Detective" won’t be to every taste, but it clearly doesn’t expect to be.
All Reviews
What Is to Be Done?
Knox Peden on "The History Manifesto" by Jo Guldi and David Armitage.
Unfilmable
To read Kelly Link’s stories is to understand the sheer possibilities of form, of genre, and how rules can be twisted, snapped, shattered.
Grossly Underprepared: Elisa Albert’s Novel of New Motherhood
Elisa Albert's After Birth takes on female friendship with the same boldness and irreverence with which she dismantles the clichés of motherhood.
The Black Box Within: Quantified Selves, Self-Directed Surveillance, and the Dark Side of Datification
What happens when “life as we know it” becomes a series of occasions to collect, analyze, and use data to determine what’s true, opportune, or even right to do? According to Luke Dormehl, much more than we bargained for.
Zen Again: Reconsidering D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki was “one of the most culturally influential Asians of the twentieth century.”
The Real Life of Real Estate
"Never trust an ordinary man in a small English town."
A Deep Search for Understanding
Chinese immigrants transform Italy.
Guantánamo Diary: Random American Justice
Anne Richardson on Mohamedou Ould Slahi's "Guantánamo Diary"
A Hundred Thousand Years of Making Love
"The First Bad Man" not only showcases Miranda July’s essential humanism, it displays a blossoming maturity, accessibility, and philosophical depth.
How to Live Together: Lessons from Algeria
Albert Camus’s Algerian Chronicles, Pierre Bourdieu’s photo-book Picturing Algeria, and Denis Guénoun’s moving family biography, A Semite, invoke lessons on how to live together well.
Bernard Cooper on Art and Life
Bernard Cooper on the way life does, indeed, follow art.
An African American Life?
“However magesterially this biography conventionalizes Brown’s life, it does so at some potential cost to Brown’s anomalousness.”
The Mysterious Life of David Goodis
Complicating the picture of Goodis’s career was the fact his work had a separate life in France.
Fog Chaser
On fog, memory, San Francisco, and Kyle Boelte's memoir.
Richard Pryor’s Comedy of Fear
A man alone on a stage with just his microphone, his talent, and his demons for company.
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