Many of Octavia Butler’s novels ask: how can the world get better when the dream of a better world for some has, historically, ideologically, and seemingly inevitably, meant a hell for others?
We need a serious conversation about the relation of social media to the judicial system; this book is not it.
The publication of A Life with Mary Shelley shows exactly what was at stake in the reclamation of Mary Shelley’s absorbing novel for a whole generation of young women in the academy, seeking themselves to be heard.
In The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt demonstrates that the threshold between the self and the world is frequently, and quite irrevocably, permeable and unstable.
Joshua Michael Demaree on the career of Edie Fake.
The Invention of News — If the daily newspaper was never exactly a sacred object, it grew to become a powerfully symbolic one.
Neither of these books is about "50 Shades of Grey," not really. They are about the state of women. How, they ask, is feminism working for you?
Meghan Forbes offers a concise guide to Hrabalesque, the gift of the gab, and perfecting the art of the barroom story in the short fiction of the great Czech author Bohumil Hrabal.
Joseph Epstein imbibes, perhaps a little too much, the literary education.
Danny Plotnick reviews Phillip Kerr's new novel "Prayer."
Andrew Tonkovich on Gary Amdahl’s first novel, the pretend memoir of a brilliant, unnamed Minnesota boy who attempts to reconcile knowing, seeing, being, and girls.
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