All Reviews

• Jhumpa Lahiri’s Real America: On “The Lowland”

  Urmila Seshagiri review's Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (Knopf, 2013).

  Urmila SeshagiriOct 9, 2013
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  The Other Life That Is Ours: Revisiting Dawn Raffel

  David WintersOct 8, 2013
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  An Anatomy of Story: Douglas Glover’s "Savage Love"

  Bruce StoneOct 7, 2013
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  Total Eclipse of the Bar: Nathan Deuel on ‘Turn Around Bright Eyes’

  What’s your karaoke song? Rob Sheffield, one of the best music writers around, on love and ritual.

  Nathan DeuelOct 7, 2013
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  Our Prehistoric Contemporaries

  David SeedOct 7, 2013
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  An Elaborate Lie: David Samuel Levinson’s Literary Hall of Mirrors

  A complex and convoluted web of literary espionage, petty crime, gun violence, and revenge by David Samuel Levinson.

  Ivy PochodaOct 6, 2013

• Toby Barlow’s Bewitched Cities

  Oct 6, 2013

• Only Disconnect: Peter Orner's Latest

  Peter Orner’s Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge is fragmented. That’s what makes it hang together.

  Oct 6, 2013
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  A Masculine Instagram, No Filter: Adelle Waldman’s Portrait of a Guy

  A novel of our current, confusing, contradictory moment of masculinity.

  Brian GreskoOct 6, 2013

• The View From Above: Rebecca Lee’s Clear-Eyed Perspectives

  For all the combustible material these stories contain, they rarely combust.

  Oct 6, 2013
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  Class and Racial Tensions in Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street

  To be clear, it wasn’t that Pochoda felt like she couldn’t write Val and June as black girls, it is that she chose not to.

  Neelanjana BanerjeeOct 5, 2013

• A Conspicuous Gap: On Orson Welles in Italy

  “Far from home, instead of finding refuge from Hollywood, Orson Welles had found in Italy another country that didn’t understand him.”

  Oct 5, 2013

• Use Your Illusion: Marisha Pessl’s Horror Mash-Up

  It’s story that is so seductive in Marisha Pessl's Night Film, a pleasure immediately ignited by a TIME.com slideshow about Cordova’s life and career.

  Oct 4, 2013
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  The Novelist Goes to the Movies: Marisha Pessl's "Night Film"

  Night Film is a novel for the digital age, but if this is the kind of fiction our age produces, then these are dark times indeed.

  Maggie DohertyOct 4, 2013

• The Windy City and the Foggy City

  The third cities — Chicago and San Francisco — and the love and hate they inspire.

  Oct 2, 2013

• The Doom of Repetition: Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep”

  Oct 2, 2013