All Reviews

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  Disney, Autism, and Whatever Works

  The experts told them to keep him away from animated movies; they, luckily, didn’t listen.

  Rachel AdamsJun 16, 2014
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  About a Bird

  The economic and political history of birds that are very, very far from paradise.

  Ingrid SatelmajerJun 14, 2014
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  Innocent Seamonsters

  Abbie WilsonJun 14, 2014

  • Comics

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  Like Children

  Cynthia Cruz examines the problems with recovery books on anorexia and eating disorders, looking at Emma Woolf’s memoir An Apple a Day.

  Cynthia CruzJun 14, 2014

• Winding Between Myth and Politics: The Silk Road

  Historian Nile Green talks the delusions of romance, global capitalism, and the Silk Road in Valerie Hansen’s The Silk Road: A New History and James A. Millward’s The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction.

  Nile GreenJun 13, 2014

• The Dangers of Risk: Stories by Rivka Galchen

  After The Debut: Pauls Toutonghi on Rivka Galchen’s second book, American Innovations

  Pauls ToutonghiJun 12, 2014
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  How the Supreme Court Saved the Right to Vote

  SCOTUS is not an ideological madhouse, but smart, reasonable people disagreeing.

  Jessica A. LevinsonJun 12, 2014

• The Indian General Elections, Arundhati Roy, and the Secular Ideal

  Arundhati Roy writes a book-length introduction … and a scathing critique of Gandhi and Hindu nationalism.

  Neha SharmaJun 12, 2014

  • Religion

• The Monster of Governmentality

  If neoliberalism is now the name of the game, where does power really lie in our society? Does politics still matter, or is it the economy that’s calling the shots and running the show?

  Bruce RobbinsJun 10, 2014
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  Just What Is It About Illegal You Don’t Understand?

  Aviva Chomsky’s dense, academic book comes to one simple conclusion: “the way US immigration laws operate is absurd.”

  Sara CamposJun 10, 2014

  • Law

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  Going Up?

  Without the “vertical railways” of the elevator, not only would cities like New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong bear no architectural resemblance to their current forms, they would also be radically different social spaces.

  Ariana KellyJun 9, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

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  But What’s Underneath?

  Jessica GrossJun 9, 2014
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  Lives Between Words: Exploring Latino/a Literature with Daniel Olivas

  Daniel Olivas has been interviewing everyone who is anyone in Latino/a Literature.

  Carribean FragozaJun 8, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

• A Threat to Its Own Survival: China and The Party Look Forward

  Tomas HachardJun 7, 2014

• More than a Good Story

  Joe Bonomo reflects on the confusion of category, definition, and introspection in Take This Man, Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of a childhood in Echo Park.

  Joe BonomoJun 7, 2014

• Nightmares and Mornings in Appalachia

  A Newtonian plot filled with drugs, prostitution, and violence keeps this brutal debut novel in a state of motion at the expense of emotion. Young God feels simultaneously electric and blank.

  Callie SiskelJun 6, 2014