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I Could Smell Without Smelling
Lindsey Webb follows Rainer Diana Hamilton’s paths through sensing and remembering in “Lilacs.”
Lindsey WebbNov 1
- Poetry
The Return of the Luddites
Erik J. Larson considers “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want” by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.
Erik J. LarsonOct 31
- Science & Technology
- Philosophy & Religion
Edward Steed’s Posthuman Comedy
Ivan Kreilkamp “blasts through ordinary perception” in Edward Steed’s “Forces of Nature: A Book of Drawings.”
Ivan KreilkampOct 30
- Comics
Finishing Last
Gracie Hadland relates to John Tottenham’s “Service.”
Gracie HadlandOct 29
- Fiction
Destroy Humanism
Eric Vanderwall reviews Peter Behrman de Sinéty’s new translation of French author Pierre Guyotat’s memoir “Idiocy.”
Eric VanderwallOct 29
- Memoir & Essay
Enuf Is Enuf
Tom LeClair clop-clops through Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel “Tom’s Crossing.”
Tom LeClairOct 28
- Fiction
- SF
Challenging the Myth of Firstness
John Rieder explores Zac Zimmer’s “First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas.”
John RiederOct 27
- SF
- History
Beautiful Losing
Josh Billings wonders about Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s new novel “Your Name Here.”
Josh BillingsOct 27
- Fiction
The Cancel-Culture Canard
Emmet Fraizer considers Adam Szetela’s “That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing.”
Emmet FraizerOct 26
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Precious Vestiges of Something That Took Place
Claire Foster reviews Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.”
Claire FosterOct 25
- Fiction
The Ghosts of the Delivery Room
Corinne Cordasco-Pak reviews Erica Stern’s “Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story.”
Corinne Cordasco-PakOct 25
- Memoir & Essay
- SF
The Novella in the Age of Being Performatively Offline
Ryan Lackey considers Damion Searls’s take on the vertiginous effects of digital life in “Analog Days.”
Ryan LackeyOct 24
- Fiction
Can Tragedies Transcend Borders?
Amy R. Wong explores Nan Z. Da’s “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear.”
Amy R. WongOct 23
- History
- Literary Criticism
Power Hangs by a Literal Thread
Ian Kumekawa dives into Samanth Subramanian’s “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.”
Ian KumekawaOct 23
- Science & Technology
- Politics
Parading Around Among the Living Like Nothing Happened
Zachary Gillan explores Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories,” translated by Megan McDowell.
Zachary GillanOct 22
- SF
The Problem of the Parlor
Douglas Dowland close-reads Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant’s new edited volume, “Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century.”
Douglas DowlandOct 21