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Stone Age Mindset
Luke Kemp’s ‘Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse’ diagnoses civilizational symptoms while sidestepping serious solutions.
All Reviews
Fantastical Transcendence and the Magic of Resistance
Ruth Joffre digs into a new anthology of speculative writing about resistance, edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older.
Made in America
Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” and the mythmaking around a monoculture masterpiece.
Strange Woofs
Rowland Bagnall reads the previously uncollected dream songs of John Berryman.
Mute Thought
Thomas Waller on Lygia Clark at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Fascist Pleasures and Failed Satire
David Shipko faces down postmodern fascism in the video game “Helldivers 2.”
The Womb and the Web
Isabel Davis considers Amanda Hess’s new book about bringing a baby into a world of smart technology and data harvesting.
Will I Ever Stop Wanting?
Tierney Finster traverses “Flat Earth,” Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel.
Ta-Ta for Now
Sophie van Well Groeneveld visits a Wolfgang Tillmans survey, the final exhibition at Centre Pompidou before its renovation.
Has English Killed Global Literature?
Chloe Garcia Roberts considers J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos’s new book on translation.
There’s No Telling
Annie Berke considers timelines not taken in new novels by Erin Somers and Catherine Newman.
Contact High: Anselm Kiefer at 80
Ranbir Sidhu visits two recent exhibitions of Anselm Kiefer in Greece and the Netherlands.
Isengard in Oxford
Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.
Culture Never Recovered
From his rear window, M. Keith Booker reads the new anthology of stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Beginning to See the Light
Rowland Bagnall dives into the early work of Stephen Shore, newly collected by MACK.
Accidental Offerings to Ancient Gods
A palace of fine arts sinks into historical depths in Beatriz Cortez’s exhibition at Commonwealth and Council.
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