All Reviews
The Evolving Virgin: Sexual Treaties, Gaga Procreation and the “Facts of Life”
Why Does the World Exist?: Jim Holt's "Existential Detective Story"
Medical-Grade St. Aubyn: On "The Patrick Melrose Novels"
The Dispossessed: Brian Levack’s “The Devil Within”
Getting to the Truth about Hedge Funds
All That Exists Is the Only True Luxury: Miklós Szentkuthy’s "Marginalia on Casanova"
Untied, Undone
Dated on Arrival: James Salter’s “All That Is”
Fabrics and Trinkets: Elizabeth Winder’s Sylvia Plath
We Read Things Differently
Peace provides other pleasures than those of interpretation and memory. Its individual scenes are sharply evoked so that we travel in time.
Hero Without a Sequel: Charles Jackson Revisited
Rock Star Professors: Eric Weisbard’s “Pop When The World Falls Apart”
Israel Unmoored: The Fault Lines of the Jewish State
Justice Revealed: Sonia Sotomayor’s Early Years
Fair Warning: Julian Assange’s “Cypherpunks”
Adam Morris on Julian Assange's "Cypherpunks."