Hidden Histories
Dave Mandl on urban history and John Rogers's thinking-out-loud travelogue, "This Other London."
All Reviews
Heroic Age Post-Modernism
Revolutionary Performances
How It Feels to Be Free traces both the idea of “the Black Revolutionary” and the lived experiences of actual revolutionaries — particularly the revolutionary performances of Black women entertainers.
The Writer in Pieces
Ann Gelder on writing for the present and Yuri Olesha’s memoir-in-fragments, "No Day Without a Line."
The Exile and the Spy
In Edward Wilson’s The Whitehall Mandarin, 1960s Britain is at the forefront of the Cold War, caught between America and the Soviet Union.
When First Books Are Not First Books
Randall Horton extols the level of poetic maturity in the debut collections of R. Erica Doyle and francine j. harris.
“Why Do We Die and What Is the Purpose of Life?”
American Literature’s Forgotten Latino Subjects
A World Not to Come’s gripping story and rich archive demand that we recalibrate our sense of what “American” literary history might be. Contributor tagline: John Alba Cutler is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University.
Alienated Old Man Creates Some Sad Music
Facts and Dreams
Dept. of Speculation gives us a heroine engaged in the conflict between motherhood and artistic output — or, in a larger sense — between safety and ambition.
Anatomy Artist
Maximal Anxiety
Whatta Mensch! A Review of Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness & Nationalism
The Price of Peace
"Tribute," a novel by Anne Germanacos, demands a poetic aptitude from its reader.
A Writer at Sea
Geoff Dyer spent two weeks aboard the USS George H. W. Bush. Another Great Day at Sea, recently published by Pantheon, is his remarkable account of that stay.
Against "Friendship"
Merve Emre on Emily Gould's 'Friendship' and the reason Gawker snark and the novel are very different things.
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