All Reviews
Painting World War I, Not Quite by Number
Jean Echenoz brings World War I alive in his compact and chiseled 1914.
A Mixed Bag of Summer from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki
Luckily, Jillian Tamaki’s exquisite drawings redeem This One Summer.
The Last Donut of the Night
The Timely History of a Timeless Story
The Savage Desire to Know More: On Ben Watt
Ben Watt writes even better than he makes music.
The Journalist and the Victim
Our Own Device
Michael Schmidt’s biography of the novel is uplifting, proving that the novel is here to stay.
Endless Mourning: Rubén Martínez on Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman's latest mourns the catastrophe of the endless drug war.
Sacred Fever
Dybek’s fantastical images can shatter our hubristic “reality” by revealing the world as marvelously alien and eternally mysterious — and by refusing to reconstitute it.
Nothing Easier
A Quotable Love Story
An Honest Ghost, a novel constructed of quotations from other novels, becomes nothing less than a powerfully moving story of love, and loss, and their precious remainders, or the story rather of how what you love is always at risk of becoming only the trace and remainder of itself.
Strangers in the Metropolis: Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Mara Hvistendahl
"The Love Bunglers" by Jaime Hernandez
The latest installment of the Love & Rockets series by Los Bros Hernandez
The Lost Domain of Childhood
Maxim Leo has produced a lucid, dispassionate, and altogether extraordinary account of three generations of his German family in the shadow of Big History.
Imperial Mashup: Aimee Suzara’s "Souvenir"
Carribean Fragoza on reclaiming relics and the poetry of Aimee Suzara.
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