Extreme Foodie-ism: Dana Goodyear's "Anything That Moves"
Dana Goodyear whets Douglas Bauer’s appetite for reading about eating, but not for eating itself.
All Reviews
Ghosts at Home
Adam Z. Levy reviews Charles Farkas’s book of memoirs, Vanished by the Danube.
The Heiress
Miss Havisham, who haunts Great Expectations as an eternal jilted bride, is made flesh and bone in Richard Frame’s Havisham.
The Authentic Hemingway
The portrait of Hemingway that emerges from his letters is ambitious and confident, red-blooded and popular, disciplined and talented.
Can One Foster Creativity?
What makes creativity exceptional?
Tears, Fires and Evasions: The Sentimental Repackaging of George W. Bush
Any president can be packaged and rebranded. All it takes is a little insider journalism.
Pickles, Puja, and Pulp: On Tamil Pulp Fiction
A Search in Obedience: On the Collected Works of Robert Duncan
The new collected poems of American poet Robert Duncan gives us a rare insight into his early works.
Migrant Trainhoppers on the Rails Through Hell
A tour-de-force overlooked by the year’s best-of lists deserves to be recognized.
Parker’s Theme: An Overture
Don’t You Know About the Bird? Liesl Schillinger’s "Wordbirds"
Schillinger playfully rearranges our glossary.
Trude Love
The Facades is not so much a whodunit as a whoamI.
The Departed
Robert Stone’s novels play by their own rules.
The Man in Black in Shades of Gray
In his epic new biography, Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn explores both sides of his subject and how they were in constant conflict.
A Sweet Theorem of a Book
Pynchon’s Launch Party
Pynchon’s literary career has shared more with the dehumanizing ethos of Silicon Valley than has been recognized. Siri is a Pynchon character.
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