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Violence Repeated: On Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation”
Anabelle Johnston reviews Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation.”
Criticism
Reviews and essays about books, across all genres and subjects.
Misinformed Care: On Uché Blackstock’s “Legacy” and Constance Hilliard’s “Ancestral Genomics”
Naa Oyo A. Kwate lauds Uché Blackstock’s grounded memoir about racism in medicine and denounces Constance Hilliard’s genetic explanation for Black...
A Tax Haven in a Heartless World: On Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution”
Sarah Brouillette reviews Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.”
Actual Real Life: On Curtis Hanson’s “8 Mile”
Jayson Buford revisits Curtis Hanson and Eminem’s “8 Mile.”
In the Midst of Life, We Are in Death: On Marina Yuszczuk’s “Thirst”
Zachary Gillan reviews Marina Yuszczuk’s “Thirst.”
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From the Archive
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Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other
ISRAEL'S RECENT MILITARY ASSAULT on Gaza serves as a reminder of the continuing urgency of the Palestinian question, which has been a topic of...
One Long, Queasy Confession: On Lucas Rijneveld’s “My Heavenly Favorite”
Francesca Peacock reviews Lucas Rijneveld’s “My Heavenly Favorite.”
The Good Wood: On Matthew J. C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki”
Josh Billings reviews Matthew J. C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences.”
Falling Apart Together: On Hannah Proctor’s “Burnout”
Tom Allen reviews Hannah Proctor’s “Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat.”
Hollywood’s Nomads: On Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s “Unhomed”
Ned Resnikoff reviews Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s “Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.”
A Red Flag for a Bull: On Constance Debré’s “Playboy”
Lazz Kinnamon reviews Constance Debré's "Playboy."
Listening for Echoes of Eleanor: On Elizabeth Hand’s “A Haunting on the Hill”
Shannon Scott reviews Elizabeth Hand’s “A Haunting on the Hill.”
Haunted Native America: On Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. and Shane Hawk’s “Never Whistle at Night”
Eric Gary Anderson reviews Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. and Shane Hawk’s “Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology.”
Draw the Black Straw: On Jean Valentine’s “Light Me Down”
Elizabeth Metzger reviews Jean Valentine’s “Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine.”
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