All Reviews

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  Unfamous

  Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012

  • Fiction

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  The Future is a Different Country: On William Gibson

  Jeffrey WasserstromMay 5, 2012

  • SF

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  The Most Dangerous Place in the Western Hemisphere

  Mary CuddeheMay 4, 2012

• Infected by Time

  "Graham's distinctive hyperattentiveness — appetitive, self-worrying — now flares up and now burns low."

  Calvin BedientMay 3, 2012

• Trois Femmes, Une Cité: Alice Kaplan's "Dreaming in French"

  "Intellectual, sophisticate, radical. These were words synonymous with each woman's French influence."

  Sadie SteinMay 1, 2012
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  Artifacts Only: On Jonathan Lethem’s “Fear of Music”

  What to make of a diminished format?

  Evan KindleyMay 1, 2012
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  Reburning LA — The Literature of 1992

  “Not knowing” in media-saturated L.A. is our only universally shared condition. We have a literature about Los Angeles in which a city we partly recog

  Apr 29, 2012
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  Winsome Ghosts in the Machine: Joan Gordon’s “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”

  They seem alive, even though they are without bodies: they act independently and individually, have preferences, suffer, learn, [and] become depressed

  Joan GordonApr 27, 2012
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  DeLillo's Inclinations Toward the Sacred

  Sometime in the late 1970s, Don DeLillo stopped being embarrassed by his own inclinations toward the sacred.

  Cornel BoncaApr 24, 2012

• Before Sunset

  "Mostly there is love, conventional and otherwise, which trumps all."

  Denise HamiltonApr 23, 2012

• Palimpsest

  Good narrative grammar is the basic building block of story. Winterson isn't interested in narrative grammar.

  Nicola GriffithApr 21, 2012

• Playful Games with Reality: Christopher Priest’s “The Islanders”

  "Part of this is play; part of it is deadly serious."

  Paul KincaidApr 21, 2012

  • SF

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  All Hail the Chairmen: Jonathan Olivares's "Taxonomy of Office Chairs"

  Why not make yourself comfortable while you're working your way to the top?

  Apr 18, 2012
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  Abnegation

  Self-deprecation, and dogs and love.

  Maria BustillosApr 18, 2012
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  Doors Closing Slowly: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels

  He began to work on an entirely new kind of novel, one that would focus more on the victims of violent crime than on its perpetrators.

  Patrick MillikinApr 18, 2012
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  Paradigms Regained

  One thing is not said often enough: Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, like all great books, is a work of passion, and a passio

  Ian HackingApr 18, 2012