All Reviews

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  Andrew Coburn: The Understated Noirist

  Andrew Coburn writes the suburb’s voyeurs, misfits, the covetous, the deranged, and the eccentric.

  Woody HautSep 28, 2014

  • Noir

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  Adding to the Übernovel: Why David Mitchell Does What He Does

  A call to reviewers to drop elitist prejudices and see Mitchell’s appropriation of fantasy genres for what it is.

  Brian FinneySep 28, 2014

• From Tehran to Tehrangeles: Gina Nahai’s Multigenerational Saga

  “The truth about the Soleymans’ sworn enemy, that reptile-in-Ferragamo-loafers, Raphael’s Son.”

  Dalia SoferSep 27, 2014

• Something Rotten in Denmark

  Bill LoehfelmSep 27, 2014

  • Noir

• Because Our Fathers Lied

  "They were no different one from another. They smiled, exchanged comments; hands reached out and grasped … If only we spoke the same language!”

  Patricia M.E. LorcinSep 26, 2014

  • History

• The House, The Story

  Reading Elizabeth Taylor

  Alix OhlinSep 25, 2014

• The Longing of the Collector

  D.J. Lee on Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research. Edited by Bruce Joshua Miller.

  D. J. LeeSep 25, 2014

  • Nonfiction

• Girl Trouble

  Is modern society inherently poisonous to its young women — or is sickness inherent to the condition of being a girl?

  Robin WassermanSep 25, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• A Truthy Critique of American Higher Ed

  "Excellent Sheep" enters a conversation that is well worth engaging — if only because public opinion, stoked with Deresiewicz-style fables passing as fact, has the power to do great harm.

  Kevin DettmarSep 25, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Education

• White People Problems: A Critical Response to William Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep”

  Deresiewicz is angry about the miseducation of young people at prestigious universities. He is also, according to Douglas Greenberg, “making shit up.”

  Douglas GreenbergSep 25, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

• The Curse of Byron

  Where, then, is the promised history of “the birth of literature’s greatest monsters”?

  Leslie S. KlingerSep 24, 2014

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Poetry

• Guilty as Charged

  Erwin Chemerinsky attempts to save the Supreme Court from its own worst enemy.

  Jonathan ShapiroSep 24, 2014

  • Law

  • Politics

• The Wisdom of the Pig-Keeper

  Lloyd Alexander’s "The Book of Three" as a Story for Today

  Cara ParksSep 24, 2014

• This Endanger'd Isle

  Amy Wilentz on The Children Act

  Amy WilentzSep 23, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

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  Empire, Empathy, and Identity

  Karen BurnhamSep 22, 2014
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  “Sincerely Most Sincerely”

  Ray Johnson’s Mail Art

  Mike PowellSep 22, 2014

  • Art & Architecture