Rock ’n’ Roll Lives, Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll
"Rock ’n’ roll acts as a language rather than a genre — one whose health is measured not by chart positions or album sales, but by artists and listeners."
All Reviews
Toyed with and Discarded: The Inmate as Human in an Age of Mass Incarceration
The United States currently faces an unprecedented prison crisis.
A Language of Her Own
Anya Ulinich’s latest graphic novel highlights her comedic genius.
The Navel-Gazer’s Guide to the Galaxy
She doesn’t care what you think.
Actually, Images Have Meanings of Their Own
While a little affective formalism drives intention out of the work, more than a little drives one to examine all that it seeks to repress.
When a River Is a World: Twigger on the Nile
Stories of excess, love, passion, splendor, and death. Plenty of death.
Unearthing the Fossils of Shame
Wendy C. Ortiz's "Excavation" is the story of writing as salvation.
Home in the Hinterland
Those who go to Patna expecting dismal conditions will find them, but these are neither the only realities nor the most important ones.
Unwieldy and Inescapable
Linda Kinstler on Postmemory and David Bezmozgis’s “The Betrayers”
Approaches to Comics
Sara Lautman’s comic review of two other comics, by Leslie Weibeler and Dane Martin.
To Organize Without a Preface
On Rodrigo Nunes’s 'Organisation of the Organisationless'
Writers’ Private Lives
New Books on Harper Lee and J. D. Salinger
Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy
Varieties of Hatred
"Why did the Nazis kill the Jews? Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the causes and meaning of the Holocaust remain as high on historians’ agendas as ever."
Is College Still Worth It?
“Our failing colleges” got the A-side listing. The B-side, “our failing pragmatism: how a market focus hurt college learning” — never got played.
On Risk and Personal Belief
Fear paralyzes, irrationality kills.
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