All Reviews

• Arriving at a Few Conclusions

  Andrew TonkovichMay 28, 2012

• Lost Highway Revisited: Ginger Strand’s “Killer on the Road”

  "No other feature of our national landscape has the same lonely menace, the same panoramic yet stifling dread of an empty highway."

  Jeremy LybargerMay 28, 2012

• You’re Not Alone

  Franzen can’t help but give voice to his despair, but neither does he give it the last word, choosing to place his faith in the ruggedness of comedy.

  James SantelMay 27, 2012

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Schindler Goes Hollywood Part II

  Alan HessMay 26, 2012
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  Schindler Goes Hollywood

  Alan HessMay 26, 2012
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  The Secularist's Dogma: Simon Critchley's "The Faith of the Faithless"

  David WintersMay 25, 2012
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  SalvagePunk: China Miéville's "Railsea"

  "In 'Railsea,' Miéville uses salvage itself as a mode of writing."

  Jessica StitesMay 25, 2012
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  Team Colors

  "In reality, the integration of American sports was anything but a natural or organic process. It was a struggle."

  David J. LeonardMay 24, 2012

• The Meaning of Death: John Barth's "Every Third Thought"

  "What may look at first like a slight novel from an aging author on second and third sight proves to be a sleight novel by an ageless master."

  James GreerMay 24, 2012

• Notes on Shulman

  Benjamin LordMay 23, 2012
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  Pornotopia

  "Pornotopia has the same narrative problem all utopias do — a perfectly happy place is more fun to live in than it is to read about."

  Roger BellinMay 21, 2012

• Eden of Clowns

  "You've probably heard the news: We Americans are a mob of dipshits."

  William GiraldiMay 21, 2012

• Art Book: Robert Seydel’s “Book of Ruth”

  "Even the 'author photograph' at the end of the book is another collage."

  Jocelyn HeaneyMay 20, 2012

  • Art & Architecture

• Take A Picture: On Errol Morris's "Believing Is Seeing"

  "Is a photograph 'inauthentic,' in other words, just because the objects in the frame have been moved around a bit?"

  Lauren WalshMay 20, 2012

• Soviet Scars: Elena Chizhova’s “The Time of Women”

  Yelena FurmanMay 20, 2012

• Erratic Mothering: Alison Bechdel’s “Are You My Mother?”

  "'You can't live and write at the same time,' Bechdel puts it early on. She can't, maybe, but she has made something that can."

  May 18, 2012