All Reviews

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  The Upside-Down Diagonal World of "Sea of Hooks"

  You never know what’s true while reading, but that’s part of the point in Lindsay Hill's "Sea of Hooks."

  Diane MehtaNov 6, 2013

• A Strange Allegory: JM Coetzee’s "The Childhood of Jesus"

  Roger Bellin puzzles over J.M. Coetzee’s mysterious latest novel.

  Roger BellinNov 6, 2013
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  Obscuring Capitalism: Vivek Chibber’s Critique of Subaltern Studies

  Vivek Chibber's latest book challenges the theoretical fundaments of the influential Indian Subaltern School.

  Axel AnderssonNov 6, 2013
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  What Would Edmund Burke Say?

  Edmund Burke would have hated the people who claim him as their political philosopher.

  Robert ZaretskyNov 4, 2013

• A Delville of a Tolkar: Martin Gardner’s “Undiluted Hocus-Pocus”

  Undiluted Hocus-Pocus has no dramatic revelations to offer about Gardner, but it reveals the mentality that shaped itself around his encyclopedic interests.

  David AuerbachNov 4, 2013

• The Future Is a Foreign Country: On “Twenty-First Century Science Fiction”

  Nov 3, 2013

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• Borges’s Plot Summaries: Jorge Luis Borges’s Course on English Literature

  The pleasures of Professor Borges are in the way it doesn’t resemble literary study today. It is most compelling in the moments it is entirely at odds with the way you’ve been taught to analyze books.

  Michael DuffyNov 3, 2013

• Getting it Right, Left, and Wrong with "Wilson"

  A beautifully written, intimate, flawed biography.

  John Milton CooperNov 3, 2013

• The Speed of Light in the Golden West

  Muybridge is not yet a household name, but given Rebecca Solnit’s excellent study (2003) along with the rich catalog for that art show, and now this suspenseful book, that might happen.

  Michael KammenNov 3, 2013
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  The Volcano Lovers: Frank Santoro’s “Pompeii”

  Adam McGovernNov 2, 2013

• A Way Forward: Louise Steinman's "The Crooked Mirror"

  In the search for the remnants of her own family, Louise Steinman traces the many unresolved issues that still stand in the way of a sustained dialogue between Poles and Jews, a dialogue that would at last put them on the path toward true reconciliation. Steinman’s book, The Crooked Mirror, will no doubt be part of that reconciliation.

  Nov 2, 2013

• In Praise of Cranks: Jesse Walker’s "The United States of Paranoia"

  Conspiracy theories, like religious beliefs, have the power to transfigure the believer, Jesse Walker argues in The United States of Paranoia.

  Seth BlakeNov 1, 2013

• Jesus, Death, and Taxes

  Bill O’Reilly’s Tea Party Jesus wants small government.

  Anthony Le DonneNov 1, 2013

• Celebrity and Consequence: Scott Phillips’s “Rake”

  If Scott Phillips's "Rake" slipped by you somehow this past summer, correct that now.

  William BoyleNov 1, 2013

• A Pair of Disturbing Revelations

  Amy GoldschlagerOct 31, 2013

• Wiseau’s Folly: Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s “The Disaster Artist”

  In The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero emerges as not only an engaging chronicler of the folly of first-time director Tommy Wiseau, but as an exasperated yet sympathetic friend to a troubled soul.

  Scott JacobsonOct 31, 2013