Death and Revelations
On 'The Infinitesimals' by Laura Kasischke
All Reviews
Records Don’t Love You Back: In Search of Lost 78s
These records, like the collectors who chase after them, enjoy transient existences and sharing them gives that ephemerality some meaning and purpose.
Evolution Between the Sofa Cushions
Life has evolved its way around our pesticides, antibiotics, and chemotherapies.
Fatal Attraction: Love and Murder in Tennessee
Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.
Wailin and Dreadin
Dotun Akintoye on 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'
Nothing Sublime, Nothing Grandiose
Morten Hoi Jensen on the Contemporary Danish Short Story
George Kuchar’s Voice
On The George Kuchar Reader
War Fractures
Lisa Ko on Lan Cao’s The Lotus and the Storm
A Pen in a World of Scissors: Crazy Crab’s Chinese Dream
“I have to pretend that I’m having a happy dream, even though I know Xi the Vampire is sucking my blood and soul. I can’t have my own dream, I can’t wake up, and I even can’t open my eyes and scream.”
Postcommunist Cartography: Agata Pyzik’s “Poor but Sexy”
Agata Pyzik’s Poor but Sexy attempts an ambitious continental psychogeography, examining the historical legacy of communism in Eastern and Western Europe.
A Labyrinth of Terror Made of Coral and a Fragile Global Wonder
Coal meets coral: what could possibly go wrong?
Henry Kissinger and the Coming Imbalance of Power
Neither Western Cold Warriors nor Russians have accepted Henry Kissinger’s “principles.” Does he himself truly believe in them?
No Bible Without the Devil
As in the best speculative fiction, the allegory of Goodhouse is complex and doesn’t map cleanly onto a single set of ideas.
Nail Me Right Inside the Blackness
Annie Galvin on A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Friends of Leo
Robert Howse’s bold and admirable new study seeks to rehabilitate Strauss, who has been repeatedly (and posthumously) identified as the origin point of a neoconservative conspiracy.
The Work of Mourning
The ability to lodge a poem in memory, almost against one’s will.
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