All Reviews

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  Reading “Anna Karenina” in Beirut

  Aaliya builds a life — and walls around herself — out of books in Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman.

  Priyanka KumarMar 26, 2014
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  Reinvention in the Work of Ellen Bryant Voigt

  Benjamin LandryMar 25, 2014
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  Kerouac’s Haunted Life

  Jack Kerouac’s lyrical lost novel reflects a decade of personal struggle with relationships, his father, and his writing.

  Paul Maher Jr.Mar 25, 2014
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  Backwards Robberies and Backwards Revisionists: The Art of Aimee Bender

  Aimee Bender’s imagination is as boundless as ever.

  Erika RecordonMar 24, 2014
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  Performance Anxiety: David Grubbs’s “Records Ruin the Landscape”

  Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording

  Dave MandlMar 24, 2014

  • Music

• When Gay Russia Speaks

  A new book focuses on what gay Russians themselves have to say about being gay in Russia.

  Kevin MossMar 23, 2014
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  A Life in Our Hands: Community, Crime, and Punishment

  In stitching together a wholly imagined but realistically nightmarish situation, Ball toys with our desire to know what maybe can't be known…

  Nathan DeuelMar 22, 2014

• Visions of the Beast

  Timothy Meyers discusses the various illustrators around the “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” folk tale.

  Mar 21, 2014
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  Girl from the North Country

  Pattou’s combination of relatable normalcy with fantastical fairy tale elements is exactly what makes East so enchanting.

  Leslie StephensMar 21, 2014
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  Parent of All the Gods

  Three contemporary works on religion in China.

  Ross PerlinMar 20, 2014
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  The Mind Controls: Sean Carswell on Scott O’Connor’s Half World

  Henry is a Ward Cleaver-type when he’s at home. When he’s at work, he is the banality of evil, whose 9 to 5 government job results in untold atrocities.

  Sean CarswellMar 14, 2014
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  Japan as a Land of Reinvention, Resilience, and Noisy Disagreement

  The Financial Times’s David Pilling offers the essential history of Japan.

  Alexis DuddenMar 13, 2014
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  Media in the Democratic State

  In the face of fascism’s rising threat, why did mid-century artists and scientists imagine that media could help save democracy?

  Jathan SadowskiMar 12, 2014
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  Defending the First Amendment from Attacks Coming from Both Left and Right

  One of the First Amendment’s staunchest defenders sums up his case.

  Jim LaffertyMar 11, 2014

  • Law

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  The Deserts Bloom

  "No one knew where the spring on Mount Terminus originated," but in his mythological prose David Grand is constantly digging toward it.

  Sam WorleyMar 11, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

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  Unhappy in Its Own Way

  Caeli Wolfson Widger takes on the reality of reality television in her debut novel, "Real Happy Family."

  Alizah SalarioMar 10, 2014