All Reviews

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  Philipp Meyer’s Dark and Bloody Crossroads

  Anne TrubekAug 5, 2013
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  A Nation Unhinged: The Grim Realities of “The Real American War”

  A history of the Vietnam War that finds the My Lai massacre more the rule than the exception, Nick Turse’s new book is almost guaranteed to drop your jaw.

  Tom GallagherAug 4, 2013
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  Feminism, the Frankfurt School, and Nancy Fraser

  Nancy Fraser and her “historic task”: bringing feminism to the Frankfort School.

  Georgia WarnkeAug 4, 2013
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  Flawed World-Building: Madeline Ashby's "iD"

  Marina BerlinAug 3, 2013
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  The War for Pieces: Wu Ming's "Altai"

  The books of the Italian collective Wu Ming are historical soap operas that carry an extratextual awareness of their dependence on the past.

  Michael ThomsenAug 3, 2013
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  The Fog of Pot

  The marijuana lexicon is changing.

  Anna KingAug 3, 2013
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  Taking Writing Seriously: Marc Augé’s “No Fixed Abode”

  In his new book No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction, the French anthropologist Marc Augé sets out to explore the life of Paris’s working poor. The book is not a standard work of social science: it is, rather, a first-person narrative in the voice of a fictional character.

  Leah ReichAug 2, 2013
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  A Life Apart: Catherine Taylor’s South Africa

  Catherine Taylor's book, a year after reading it, continues to disturb, with its refusal to find easy answers to the problem of being white in South Africa.

  Laura MurphyAug 1, 2013

• High Pulp: Stephen King’s "Joyland"

  Stephen King’s first bodice-ripper? Max Winter explores the highs and lows of "Joyland."

  Jul 30, 2013

• Torture Unimagined

  Hilary PlumJul 30, 2013

  • Fiction

• Darkness, with Consolations: Neil Gaiman’s Latest

  Jul 29, 2013

• An Incessant Shower of Innumerable Atoms: Renata Adler

  The subject of Renata Adler’s 1976 classic is language — the sounds, rhythms, idioms, and argot comprising the foundation and fabric of the world she depicts.

  Jul 29, 2013

• Pop Disappears

  Jul 29, 2013
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  The Unliving

  Patrick NathanJul 28, 2013

• The Noble Cabbage: Michael Marder’s “Plant-Thinking”

  In Plant-Thinking, Michael Marder wants to forge a philosophical encounter with vegetal life, all the while respecting the alien ontology of floral ways of being. Contributor tagline: Dominic Pettman is Chair of the Culture and Media program at Eugene Lang College, and Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research.

  Dominic PettmanJul 28, 2013

  • Philosophy & Religion

• The Thinking Man's Zombie

  Jul 28, 2013