All Reviews

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  Listening to the Revolution

  Molly McArdleFeb 18, 2014
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  How to See the World As It Isn’t: Thinking with the Life of Louis Agassiz

  A mid-19th-century scientist can teach us a lot about how to see the world as it isn’t.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonFeb 17, 2014

• True Believers

  Heather Scott Partington goes looking for God with memoirists Sara Miles and Megan Hustad.

  Heather Scott PartingtonFeb 16, 2014
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  A Professional Dilettante

  Henry Giardina on the biography of Carl Van Vechten, a controversial figure of the early modernist movement.

  Henry GiardinaFeb 16, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Hedonist

  William Giraldi reviews a biography on the paradoxical, hedonistic, and fascinating Carl Van Vechten.

  William GiraldiFeb 16, 2014
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  Sleep’s Hidden Histories

  Benjamin Reiss reviews three works that offer not quite the complete history of sleep, but a good start.

  Benjamin ReissFeb 15, 2014
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  American Literature and the Composition of Experience

  Nicholas GaskillFeb 14, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  The “Unintended Consequences” of America’s Arsenal

  America loves its bombs: they always seem to come out of nowhere.

  Michael SherryFeb 13, 2014
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  A Spectrum of Heroines

  Ilana TeitelbaumFeb 13, 2014
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  A Practical Communism for the 21st Century

  What would a practical communism look like for the 21st century?

  Luke DaviesFeb 13, 2014
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  Ye Who Enter, Abandon Hope: Hell Is a Hospital in Lore Segal's "Half the Kingdom"

  In Lore Segal’s Half the Kingdom, the end of days is here…

  Nathan DeuelFeb 12, 2014
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  Lost Girls

  Death, loss and responsibility in Susan Minot’s latest novel, Thirty Girls…

  Diana WagmanFeb 12, 2014
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  Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law

  Lewis Perry, civil disobedience, and a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between lawlessness and citizenship.

  Jessica PishkoFeb 11, 2014
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  Manufacturing Consent: Estelle B. Freedman’s “Redefining Rape”

  Annie ShieldsFeb 11, 2014
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  Doubling the Double Life: Arturo Fontaine’s Novel of Chilean Terror

  Marguerite FeitlowitzFeb 10, 2014
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  Punk Is Not Dead

  The biography of Pussy Riot

  James Thomas SnyderFeb 10, 2014