All Reviews

• Freedom at the End of a Gospel Song

  Why the Staples Sisters Matter

  Stephen DeusnerFeb 9, 2014

• The Nietzsche Doctrine

  Feb 8, 2014
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  When Legislators Actually Mattered

  Magliocca reminds us that there was a time in America’s history when statesmen actually did their jobs.

  Laurie L. LevensonFeb 6, 2014
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  Chang-rae Lee's Dystopian America

  “To come clean, I enjoy talking about On Such A Full Sea more than I do reading it.”

  Geoff MakFeb 5, 2014

• The Midwest Finds Its Voice

  Shonkwiler's take on the Midwest shows how hardcore and unbreakable the human spirit truly is.

  Leah AngstmanFeb 5, 2014
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  “The View from There”: W. G. Sebald’s “A Place in the Country”

  The most excellent Jenny Hendrix on the great W. G. Sebald.

  Feb 5, 2014
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  The Sounds of Soulsville, U.S.A.

  Aaron GilbreathFeb 4, 2014
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  A Novel Life

  Middlemarch is, of course, not the only novel that changes with the age of its reader, but it does attract a particular kind of rereading.

  Hannah RosefieldFeb 4, 2014
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  Middlemarch and Me

  In Middlemarch, George Eliot always seemed to suggest that emotional narrowness is a tragedy rather than a sin.

  Pamela ErensFeb 4, 2014
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  Good Company: Conversations With Norman Manea

  Norman Manea, interviewer and interviewee.

  Paul MandelbaumFeb 2, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

• Exile, Hooliganism, and Norman Manea’s “The Hooligan’s Return”

  Norman Manea’s The Hooligan’s Return is one of the vanguard experimental memoirs of our time.

  Carla BariczFeb 2, 2014
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  Reporting on Afghanistan in the Shadow of the “I”

  Helen BenedictFeb 1, 2014

  • Travel

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  Dirty Laundry

  A tell all that tells little.

  Stan PerskyFeb 1, 2014
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  The Memoir of the Immediate

  Jessica Hendry Nelson takes a risk and gets it right in her debut memoir.

  Jill TalbotJan 31, 2014
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  Life, Death, and Taxes

  There’s nothing certain in life but death and taxes, as the proverb goes, and we’ll never get the answers…

  Mieke EerkensJan 29, 2014
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  “Get Down to Zero”

  Rarely, if ever, have we seen young American womanhood painted in such a raw and honest and heartbreaking way.

  William BoyleJan 29, 2014