All Reviews

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  There Are No Words

  Young Widower John Evans discovers that the only way to survive the unspeakable is to say it out loud.

  Nicholas MontemaranoMay 2, 2014

  • Travel

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  After the Great American Novel

  What do English professors do with literature? And what might the next era of literary scholarship look like?

  Jordan Alexander SteinMay 1, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  Mimi Pond, Cartoonist Royalty

  MariNaomi does a graphic review of Mimi Pond's latest from Drawn & Quarterly

  MariNaomiMay 1, 2014

  • Comics

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  Experiments in Taste

  Carl Wilson confronts a musical work he cannot understand the merits of: Céline Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love. Every critic should be attempting these experiments on a regular basis.

  Elias LeightMay 1, 2014

  • Music

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  From Long March to Leftovers

  The ramifications of China’s one-child policy on its female population are provocatively laid out in Leta Hong Fincher’s new book.

  Apr 30, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Zen and the Art of Double Entry Bookkeeping: On Accounting and Accountability

  If we want more accountability in our public and private institutions, we must also ask more of ourselves, according to Andrew Soll.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonApr 29, 2014
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  Anywhere But Here: The Power of Place in '80s New Wave

  Gina VivinettoApr 29, 2014

  • Music

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  This We Believe

  Jonathan Kirsch reviews Jeff Sharlet’s book on belief in America.

  Jonathan KirschApr 28, 2014

• The Return of the Repressed

  Is reality truly just a void? John Caruana discusses in his review of Simone Weil and Theology.

  Apr 28, 2014

• Piece of My Heart

  Stephen DeusnerApr 27, 2014

  • Music

• Rage, Race, and Recipes

  In Fresh Off the Boat, Chef Eddie Huang’s thoughts on race and masculinity are provocative but they often result in the memoir’s most muddled arguments.

  Oliver WangApr 27, 2014

  • Food & Drink

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  Reaching In

  Sandra Swinburne reviews Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s essay collection that brims with intimate glimpses.

  Sandra SwinburneApr 26, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

  • Science & Technology

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  Collecting and Correcting

  Martin Parr and Gerry Badger don’t discuss art, but rather they reevaluate what is and isn’t worthy of attention, whether it’s art or not.

  Geoff NicholsonApr 26, 2014

  • Art & Architecture

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  Matters of Faith

  After reading A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects you’ll never think about religion the same way again.

  Timothy BealApr 25, 2014
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  They Walk Again

  David James Poissant artfully mirrors the struggles, hopes, and failures of humans and humans in his melancholic debut short story collection.

  Tod GoldbergApr 24, 2014
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  Silent Magic

  We’re farther away now from the silent era than we ever have been, but, in many ways, we may be closer than we think.

  Michael JauchenApr 24, 2014