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Control Freaks
Arjun S. Byju employs Emily C. Bloom’s “I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art” to investigate how tools of empowerment set us up for disappointment.
All Reviews
Did the Buck Stop with Buckley?
William F. Buckley’s patrician trappings didn’t keep him away from the mud, writes Greg Barnhisel in his review of Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of the conservative intellectual.
Days of Wayward Gifts
Dan Beachy-Quick soaks in Joe Deany-Braun’s “Young Santa,” Sayumi Kamakura’s “Applause for a Cloud,” and James Shea’s “Last Day of My Face.”
The Microchip Titans
Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.
A Mother’s Specter
Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”
Toward a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
Ashley Dawson thinks about the future through Nicholas Beuret’s “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” and Thea Riofrancos’s “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.”
Proletarians of the Screen
Helena Aeberli investigates the aesthetics of memes and trash essays in Joanna Walsh’s “Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters.”
Testing the Soundness
Justin St. Clair revisits some classics in Jonathan Lethem’s “A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories.”
The Other One Is Me
Sarah McEachern traces the merging images of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl,” newly translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Realism Scrapes Through
Harry Stecopoulos explores Ian McEwan’s new novel “What We Can Know.”
The Goldilocks of Bothsidesism
Robert N. Watson investigates Thomas Chatterton Williams’s “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.”
The Demons That Rule Us
Peter B. Kaufman considers Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics.”
Religion Without Politics
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan reviews Faisal Devji’s “Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam.”
Expats Dream About China’s City of Sin
Jeremy Murray reviews Paul French’s “Destination Macao.”
Which! Brother! Do! I! Pick??????
Dorie Chevlen explores the limits of love in the Prime Video series “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”
When Philosophy Stopped the Traffic in New York City
Alexandre Lefebvre explores Emily Herring’s “Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People.”
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