Liberalism in Flight: Cowboys, Fugitives, and Political Philosophy
This negative and lonely freedom allows the stranger to move through social groups while remaining free from their constraints.
All Reviews
King of the Contrarians: Chuck Eddy’s “Rock and Roll Always Forgets”
For Eddy, recognizing a revolution often means writing like a revolution, with whatever messiness and tedium that implies.
Eternal Forgetting: Imre Kertész's "Fiasco"
There is satire here, but Cohen is also crafting a complex argument about the perils of Holocaust writing.
A Europe Full of Animals
Glossy magazines full of advice on how to improve ourselves will never eradicate the primordial within us.
The Paranoid Style: J. Hoberman’s “Army of Phantoms”
The most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published.
Nothing to Say?: Jesse Ball's "The Curfew"
Jesse Ball, publishing dystopia, and the triumph of marketing.
Loose Diamonds
Discoveries: Ben Loory
Discoveries: Mary Jane Nealon
The book is shot through with this kind of awareness and sensitivity, and examples of healing presence.
Discoveries: Frances Moore Lappé
When Lappé speaks, we listen.
Discoveries: Henri Cole
Black Milk
An introspective departure from Shafak's fiction, Black Milk takes on the challenges women writers face in reconciling independence with motherhood.
Labor Power: "The Adventures of Unemployed Man"
An instructional manual on resisting oligarchic oppression, and a brief for the value of staying in shape to look your best in spandex.
Venturing in the Slipstream
In the best SF, the extrapolated dimension is like an elaborately constructed aircraft; the metaphoric is its shadow on the ground.
Queer as Folk
A folk tale that leads in delightfully unpredictable directions.
Getting Personal
That the essayist’s persona is as constructed as any other author’s ought to be obvious. But until Carl Klaus, few seemed aware of it.