All Reviews

• Rising Temperatures: Maggie O'Farrell's "Instructions for a Heatwave"

  Following one sprawling family over four days of searing temperatures in 1976 London, Instructions for a Heatwave – O'Farrell's sixth novel – is perhaps a perfect book.

  Sep 30, 2013

• Common Ground: Brenda Stevenson’s “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins”

  Rachel MonroeSep 29, 2013

• Enough Hot Air: Paul G. Harris’s Case For A New Climate Politics

  The growing epidemic of afluenza is diagnosed in Paul G. Harris’s new book on the politics of climate change.

  Justin ScottSep 29, 2013

• The Year 1922

  The watershed year of the 20th century; the year we became modern.

  Sep 28, 2013

• Skin Flicks: Angelo Nikolopoulos' “Obscenely Yours"

  Enter Obscenely Yours, Angelo Nikolopoulos’s debut book of poems, and here it is again: that freedom of desire, a broad daylight kind of sexuality...

  Sep 27, 2013
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  Shelf Expression: Nina Katchadourian’s “Sorted Books”

  While many have categorized Sorted Books as a kind of poetry, Nina Katchadourian’s pieces are rarely taken seriously as poems or read in a poetic tradition.

  Jacquelyn ArdamSep 27, 2013

• The Curious History of "The Inconvenient Indian"

  Why a book about Indians that was rejected by 31 American publishers became a runaway bestseller in Canada.

  Michael BourneSep 26, 2013

• A Moment in Prague: Caleb Crain’s Necessary Errors

  Caleb Crain's Necessary Errors "chronicles the course of a liberating year in the life of a young American in Prague at the beginning of the 1990s."

  Lyle ZimskindSep 25, 2013
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  Saeva Indignatio: The Case Against America’s Culture of Class Warfare

  Alexander Cockburn, one of the great radical journalists of his generation, issues his final critique on an America suffering from a culture of class warfare.

  George ScialabbaSep 24, 2013
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  “Une affaire d’amour and dust”: On The Allure of the Archives

  An "introduction to research in the archives" might be something lugubrious, "a tour of silent rooms in which benumbed readers sit with eyes half-closed, choking quietly on drifting clouds of powdery dust."

  Michael MooreSep 24, 2013

• The Girl With the Sequined Chip On Her Shoulder: Pamela Moore’s "Chocolates For Breakfast"

  Revisiting Pamela Moore's "Chocolates Before Breakfast"

  Dina GachmanSep 23, 2013
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  Jittery Nation: Link, Maden, and Pickowicz’s “Restless China”

  There’s a lot to be nervous about in the new China, as Perry Link and his colleagues show.

  Megan ShankSep 23, 2013
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  Tickling for Education: Laura Frost’s “The Problem with Pleasure”

  Eroticism was Frost’s focus in Sex Drives; pleasure — somatic, aesthetic, and intellectual — is her concern here.

  Linda SimonSep 23, 2013

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  Fairy-Tale Catastrophe Reborn

  Nick HubbleSep 22, 2013
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  Our Distraction: Franzen’s Kraus Project

  Jonathan Franzen has done something of real consequence, making Karl Kraus known and available in a new way.

  Andrew WinerSep 22, 2013
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  Philosophy’s Film: On Alain Badiou’s “Cinema”

  One of the great strengths of Badiou’s philosophy is his complete lack of cynicism and willingness to risk folly in the pursuit of truth. It means that his analysis of the present is always injected with an untimely classicism and grandeur.

  Nico BaumbachSep 22, 2013

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