All Reviews

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  Recklessness and Resignation: Democracy in a Time of Crisis

  How did America’s style of democracy become one of vast inequality and enormous corporate power?

  Daniel CohenJan 28, 2014
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  Disobedience & Miseducation: Occupy and the Academy

  Can protest and civil disobedience still change an entrenched American way of life? Academics are looking to the Occupy movement for answers.

  Adam MorrisJan 28, 2014
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  Philip Roth, Feminist

  Philip Roth’s Mickey Sabbath is a propagandist of the unbridled male libido, and a character who implicated his creator in his own scandalous energies.

  Michael KimmageJan 27, 2014

• No Arab Avant-Garde: Popular Music in the Arab World

  Arab avant-garde music and the West

  Leah CaldwellJan 26, 2014
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  Cliffhanger

  Reading may be dead, but the question whether it is lives on.

  Stan PerskyJan 24, 2014
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  Always on the Outside

  In the House Un-American is a kind of trickster book, notably impure, part history, part family chronicle, and part tall tale.

  Joe SafdieJan 24, 2014
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  Barbara Stanwyck Was One Tough Dame

  If Barbara Stanwyck has a closet, Victoria Wilson is not opening it.

  M. G. LordJan 23, 2014

• That Difficult Death

  Freud thought we were all unconsciously convinced of our own immortality.

  Jan 23, 2014
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  Portrait of a Ghost

  Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky may be the best-known unknown writer of his generation.

  Diego BáezJan 22, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

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  James Bond, the Psychopath

  James Bond’s mourning, James Bond’s melancholia.

  Brian WillemsJan 21, 2014
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  The Magus and His Mediums

  D. Harlan WilsonJan 21, 2014

• The Richard Pryor Show

  Lary WallaceJan 20, 2014

• Country, in Some Kind of Song: On Landmarks and Dayplaces in World Literature

  The Landmarks anthology is a vertiginous tour into the vast geography of world literature today

  Chip RossettiJan 19, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

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  Manifestos and Metaphysics: Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism

  Eduardo MendietaJan 19, 2014
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  Powerful Debuts by Three African-American Poets

  The incubator for great African American poets: Cave Canem

  Rigoberto GonzálezJan 18, 2014

• A Mirror For Our Delusions

  Deborah Solomon’s new biography of Norman Rockwell has been receiving plenty of attention for its speculations on the artist’s sexuality. What’s more relevant is how Solomon considers the gap between Rockwell the Man and Rockwell the Illustrator as part of a force that molded American fantasy during the rise of popular culture.

  Jan 18, 2014