Listening to the Novel: The Soundtrack of Postmodernism
Postmodern literature takes a new approach to sound.
All Reviews
The Varieties of Environmental Violence
Subhankar Banerjee reviews Rob Nixon’s award-winning book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.
History and “La Crisis”: Spain Since Franco
Discovering Japan: “A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop”
It would be difficult to discuss Japanese popular music without mentioning the country’s experience as a rapidly modernizing empire remade again by the lighter-handed hegemon that defeated it. This is the story told by Michael K. Bourdaghs’s Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop.
The Past is Not Dead: Time and Race in Kiese Laymon’s “Long Division”
Despite the success of the civil rights movement, African-American identity is still attached to centuries of slavery followed by Jim Crow discrimination.
Taking on Hammer Horror: Jeanette Winterson’s “The Daylight Gate”
The Pendle with trial is fodder for Jeanette Winterson's addictive new page-turner.
It is the Calm and Silent Waters That Drown You: Edwidge Danticat's "Claire of the Sea Light"
My Favorite Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theory
Who killed Kennedy? His evil father!
How to Be an Alien: Ian Bogost’s “Alien Phenomenology, or, What It's Like to Be a Thing”
A punchy, provocative take on the “nonhuman turn.”
The Lonesome Deaths of Bob Dylan
The most thorough, thoughtful, unblinded, skeptical but caring book about Bob Dylan yet written.
Of Prophets and Tradesmen
Jordan Chandler Hirsch reviews Yossi Klein Halevi’s Like Dreamers, a micro-biography of modern Israel.
The Anatomy of Disgust
We can't act: we know too much.
The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry
What is transgender poetry? A review of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, an anthology edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson.
Breaking Up with New York
Mason Currey looks back on his love affair with New York in his review of Goodbye to All That.
Of Gods and Languages: On “When God Spoke Greek”
Kevin Hart reviews Timothy Michael Law’s book about the Septuagint, When God Spoke Greek.
Nobler Fun than Mere Mental Cosplay: On K.W. Jeter’s “Fiendish Schemes”
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