The Pulp of Culture: On Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War”
Greg Barnhisel reviews Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.”
Greg Barnhisel reviews Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.”
Leah Abrams reviews Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry.”
Jason Thornberry reviews Sarah Tomlinson’s “The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers.”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Katherine Voyles reviews David McCloskey’s “Moscow X.”
Hannah Kofman reviews Helen Oyeyemi's “Parasol Against the Axe.”
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia: Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors” and Paul Theroux’s “Burma Sahib.”
David Shipko reviews Veer Books’ new anthology “Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science/SF.”
Bailey Trela reviews Wayne Koestenbaum’s “Stubble Archipelago.”
In an essay that takes off from Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry,” native son Jonah Walters finds something entirely too innocent about the tales told about the anthracite industry’s origins.
Ian Ellison reviews Katja Haustein’s “Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters.”
Chloe Xiang reviews Cindy Juyoung Ok’s “Ward Toward.”
Ellen Song looks at Eunice Lau’s documentary “A-Town Boyz” in the context of contemporary Asian American representation.
Courtney Tenz reviews Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout: A Memoir of Doubt.”
Herb Randall reviews Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.”
LARB presents an excerpt from Alexandra Tanner’s new novel “Worry.”