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It Takes an Audience: On Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s “Ghost Pains”
Charlie Hope-D’Anieri reviews Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s “Ghost Pains.”
All Reviews
Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia”
Seo-Young Chu reviews Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss.”
The Lord of Auschwitz Asks to See a Priest: On James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution”
Jack Miles reviews James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor” in light of the new film “The Zone of Interest.”
Her Beehive Heart: On Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters”
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story.”
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Opium Smuggler: On Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes”
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
That Mystic Shit: On Lou Reed’s “The Art of the Straight Line” and Will Hermes’s “The King of New York”
Michael Scott Moore writes on the life, death, and possible religion of Lou Reed, via Lou Reed’s “The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi” and Will Hermes’s “Lou Reed: The King of New York.”
A New Hong Kong Cinema That Lives On: On Tiffany Sia’s “On and Off-Screen Imaginaries”
Jenny Wu reviews Tiffany Sia’s “On and Off-Screen Imaginaries.”
No Accident: On Two New Books About the Occupied Territories
David N. Myers reviews Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” and Mikhael Manekin’s “End of Days: Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel.”
A Host of Demands: On Katie Rogers’s “American Woman”
Lindsay Chervinsky reviews Katie Rogers’s “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.”
Fear Is a Sickness: On Liliana Corobca’s “Kinderland”
Maria Rybakova reviews Liliana Corobca’s “Kinderland.”
Rewriting (and Righting) History: On Alexander Manshel’s “Writing Backwards”
Andrew Koenig reviews Alexander Manshel’s “Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon.”
Wake Up, Sleepyhead: On David Thomson’s “Remotely”
Peter Campion reviews David Thomson’s “Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV.”
The Matrilineal Maze: On Adriana Riva’s “Salt”
Caroline Tracey traces mother-daughter strife in Adriana Riva’s recent novel “Salt.”
Complex Feminist Fantasias: On Elizabeth Flock’s “The Furies”
Emily Ann Zisko reviews Elizabeth Flock’s “The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice.”
Why Hitch Still Matters: On Christopher Hitchens’s “A Hitch in Time”
Marius Sosnowski reviews Christopher Hitchens’s posthumous collection “A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration.”
Life and Form: On Phillip Lopate’s “A Year and a Day”
Bill Thompson reviews Phillip Lopate’s “A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays.”
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