Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Read Roth's book "if you are interested in the subject matter, or if you are a judge, lawyer, elected official, or a 'student' of jurisprudence."
All Reviews
Strange Bedfellows: The Modernists and the Nazis
A study of the sometimes unhealthy alliance between artists and power.
Sweeter for Its Shadows: A Bookish Love Affair from Seth Greenland
Seth Greenland lets us see his writer/characters in their own rough drafts, endlessly shaping the words of their own consciousness.
Truth in the Poetry of Chana Bloch
"Time and time again, Bloch teaches us to questions even the strictest truths given to us by authorities in religion and society."
After Translation
Michael Leong examines Ignacio Infante's "After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic."
A Mormon Mystery
"Linda is a good Mormon, but she is more than a little ambivalent about her new role as bishop’s wife."
Between the Pen and the Protest
On Marie Gottschalk, race, poverty, and welfare in the United States.
Pathology of the Carceral State
Crime and Punishment: Is it too late to control the carceral state? Michael Meranze on Marie Gottschalk’s "commanding and disturbing" new book.
The New Western, Realism and Redemption
The novel "transcends its setting and the circumstances of a few people in a small Montana town to say something true … about violence and families …"
California’s Golden Days
California has long been the focal point of the gold rush: fracking or otherwise.
Avant Charlie: Flemming Rose and The Danish Cartoon Crisis
Flemming Rose’s "The Tyranny of Silence" is a subtly crafted and self-effacing investigation of the Danish Cartoon Crisis and the debates about free speech that surfaced in its wake.
Data Grubbers: Epidemiology, Sabermetrics, Octopus Paul, and You
Of course, one need only visit the latest round of Facebook infographics to know that statisticulation is a robust art.
Bio-Riffing on Freud
Sometimes smoking a cigar is just smoking a cigar.
Turning Noir’s Racism on Its Head: Woody Haut’s Latest
Woody Haut, Noir, Race, and Genre
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Galway Kinnell and David Roderick
On Galway Kinnell's "Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock" and David Roderick's "The Americans"
My Dinner with David
Male friendship and the nature of argument.
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