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All Reviews
Boats Are in Trees and Photocopiers Are on the Beach: Lucy Corin’s “One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses”
There’s enough sparkling, frightening imagination in each piece of this collection to make us fear Corin might know something we don’t.
Sex Ed: Natasha Post Rosow Reviews Susan Choi’s "My Education"
Sleeping with professors was never my thing, but then I'm also the victim of an overactive imagination.
Expedient Pairings: On Charles Blackstone’s "Vintage Attraction"
On the off-chance that we catch a star, the distance and detachment of the real world can dispirit even the most lovestruck hearts.
Donna Tartt's New Anti-Epic
The Goldfinch is a sprawling anti-epic, longer and denser than her previous novels, and Tartt's most intimate and mature work to date.
You Don’t Need a Weatherman
Bill Ayers whitewashes his own history yet again.
The Rotted Heart of Sin
Answers on a Postcard: Justice Among Us (Citizens)
Exile to the Ages (or, Returning Karl Marx To Our Time)
Karl Marx’s ideas no longer matter. At least, that’s what Jonathan Sperber seems to think.
Kingsley Amis’s SF Addiction
The Lawyer as Storyteller: The Case of William C. Gordon
The Foibles of Fandom: “Austenland” and “Among the Janeites”
A Comics Version of the Life of Margaret Sanger
A comics version of the life of Margaret Sanger, the birth control and women’s rights advocate.
Desert Pilgrimage
Richard Rodriguez was the Chicano Chicanos loved to hate.
Raking the Coals: Islamophobia, Surveillance-Targeting and the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit
An NYPD program to spy on Muslims implemented with the help of CIA officials — a consequence of America’s post-9/11, Islamophobic security apparatus.
Paper, Pencil, Life: Ivan Brunetti’s “Aesthetics: A Memoir”