Viral Murders
Serial killers can be pretty garish characters
All Reviews
“I Wanted the Reader to Feel Unsafe”: The Provocations of Christos Tsiolkas
New from "Around the World"
Improbable Journey
Colonialist, slaveholder, slave, prisoner, storyteller, Moor.
Fatally Cleaved
On Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back
What Are the Humanities For?
What’s the matter with the humanities?
The Shock of the New Normal
Into the Wardrobe
Fashion is a way that women speak to the world, not just a result of the way the world speaks to women.
The Lost and the Found
Contributor Nellie Hermann on "Epilogue" by Will Boast
Driving Toward the Chinese Dream
Golf is prohibited in China, so the party leaders play under fake names and the 100 new golf courses a year are called eco/fitness centers.
Town and Country: The Double Vision of Bogdan Suceavă
Even the many flourishes of violence that pepper Bogdan Suceavă's short novel are cast in a gauzy, mystical light.
The Blighted Beauty of America’s Sport
Where will America's sport be in 20 years? John Schulian maps the evolution of the sport and its reception, from it's halcyon days to now.
Blood in the Waters
Paula Morris on Sarah Waters's new book — a social drama, an illicit love story, and a crime novel.
Private Myths of the Bourgeoisie
In Donald Antrim’s new collection of short stories, characters call out to each other across the traditionally solid borders of the individual story.
The King Is Dead: Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks”
The decision of one of the century’s most influential philosophers to join forces with one of the most barbaric regimes in human history has been the source of endless controversy.
LA Women
You’re going to have a tough time if you invoke Philip Marlowe in your LA-noir novels.
Civil Disobedience
The women, as Abbott expertly portrays them, are not simple-minded diarists accounting for the war in the margins of recipes or reports about social engagements.
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