All Reviews

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  Knowing No One’s Listening

  The Unpublished Miscellanea of Octavia E. Butler: Part One of a Two Part Series

  Gerry CanavanJun 6, 2014

• Republic of Trauma

  Roxane Gay has written an important and unforgettable new novel that expertly navigates the emotional terrain between captivity and freedom, trauma and healing, the personal and the political.

  Eric NewmanJun 6, 2014

• Good Night, Mr. Kissinger

  Simona SupekarJun 5, 2014

• Of Sons and Fathers and the Excesses of Form

  On "My Struggle: Boyhood Island," which explores the pains & pleasures of boyhood. You can’t choose your parents, as they say, and that means everything.

  Mark SussmanJun 5, 2014

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  Lies in Ink, Facts in Blood

  Memory is dangerous in a country that was built to function on national amnesia.

  Megan ShankJun 4, 2014
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  Let Me Remind You

  Now that Salinger is gone, people can freely reminisce.

  Molly PuldaJun 3, 2014

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Literary Criticism

• How to Be a Mother

  Suzanne Koven finds a personal memoir of motherhood in Megan Stielstra’s Once I Was Cool: “Stielstra’s prose reads like something your friend needs to tell you right now, before she even takes her coat off.”

  Suzanne KovenJun 2, 2014

• Compulsive Individuality

  Joshua Ferris's "To Rise at a Decent Hour"

  David Burr Gerrard Jun 2, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

• Culture Shock: The Problem of Juvenile Justice

  The prison system as a whole isn’t working, particularly so for juvenile detention centers.

  Jessica PishkoJun 2, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Law

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  Magic, Memory, and Menace

  Matthew CheneyJun 1, 2014

• The Sins of the Fathers

  Standard biographies arrange lives into digestible arcs of story. We know from the outset that this memoir of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan will be very different.

  Ronjaunee ChatterjeeJun 1, 2014

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  Capital Comes Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door

  Is the United States’ public education crisis an example of a society in crisis overall?

  Tom GallagherMay 31, 2014
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  International Development’s Appalling Human Rights Record

  International development boasts an appalling human rights record; William Easterly is out to expose it.

  Hugh RobertsMay 30, 2014
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  The Criminal Kind: Noir Women

  A uniformly excellent anthology of “domestic noir” with no weak links.

  May 30, 2014

• Cremains of the Day

  Roz Chast’s new memoir is a deeply affecting piece of multimedia.

  M. G. LordMay 29, 2014

  • Humor

• The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

  There’s something more at work in The Animals than two lovers calling each other pet names.

  Matthew GallawayMay 29, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality