All Reviews

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  The Stewards of Ultimate Things: Douglas Bauer’s “What Happens Next?”

  Susan McCallum-Smith reflects on loving, living, dying, and dinner in her review of Doug Bauer’s new collection of essays.

  Susan McCallum-SmithNov 16, 2013

• Post-Financial Crisis Spiritual Reading

  The six finalists for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

  Jeffery AtikNov 16, 2013

• Of Pomegranates and Grenades: Nadeem Aslam’s “The Blind Man’s Garden”

  Nadeem Aslam's new novel, "The Blind Man's Garden," has the power to move and terrify.

  Nina MartyrisNov 16, 2013
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  The Godfathers of "Narcoland"

  The story that Hernández unfolds from there shows the near-complete impunity from which criminals benefit in Mexico mostly due to government complicity.

  Tomas HachardNov 15, 2013

• A Court of Law, Not of Justice

  The law is founded on violence.

  Vanessa PlaceNov 14, 2013
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  Second Acts: Daniel Alarcón's "At Night We Walk in Circles"

  Michael LaPointe reviews the much-anticipated second novel from Daniel Alarcón.

  Michael LaPointeNov 13, 2013

• It’s Not All Rotten Apples on Wall Street: Cristina Alger's "The Darlings"

  Christina Algers’s "The Darlings" examines the financial crisis from an insider's perspective.

  Arne De BoeverNov 13, 2013

• Costs and Causes of Innovation

  Bell Labs may not be such an ideal model for demystifying innovation after all.

  Raphael CalelNov 13, 2013
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  Weaving a Hedge

  Brian AtteberyNov 12, 2013

• The Ferocity of Care: Brenda Shaughnessy’s "Our Andromeda"

  Carmen Giménez SmithNov 10, 2013

• The Aesthetics of Enchantment: Ange Mlinko’s "Marvelous Things Overheard"

  Rebecca Ariel PorteNov 10, 2013

• Only God Knows

  This book isn’t, thank God, another book about the proofs for God’s existence, but a search, at once historical and personal, for the God that lives in proofs.

  Robert BolgerNov 9, 2013

• Marikana, Part III: Democracy’s Sharpeville

  The perpetrators of Marikana acted in the name of the post-apartheid social order governed by the ANC, South Africa’s former liberation movement, now in power for two decades.

  Alex LichtensteinNov 9, 2013
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  The Inner Sanctum: John Freeman’s “How to Read a Novelist”

  If you’re an avid follower of contemporary fiction, then John Freeman’s How To Read A Novelist is the perfect, and perfectly modest, book.

  Cornel BoncaNov 8, 2013
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  “Here Is Freshness and the Shore’s Timeless Teeth”: The Plays of Kenneth Koch

  The poet Kenneth Koch’s complete body of work for theater has been gathered and published in a new collection entitled The Banquet.

  Andrew EpsteinNov 7, 2013

• “When the Legend Becomes the Truth”: The Case of Matthew Shepard

  Is Matthew Shepard more appropriately honored by public beatification, or by an honest reckoning of who he was and why he was killed?

  Andrew GumbelNov 7, 2013