44 results

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  The Embers of April 1992

  "Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."

  Mike DavisApr 30, 2012

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  The Ghost of Wrath

  Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.

  Mike DavisJul 15, 2011

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  Pornsick Nabokov

  Mike Jeffrey considers Tony Tulathimutte’s “Rejection.”

  Mike JeffreyNov 8, 2024

  • Fiction

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  Little Drawings Make a Life: On Vanessa Davis’s “Spaniel Rage”

  Seamus O'Malley on the small pleasures of Vanessa Davis's "Spaniel Rage."

  Seamus O’MalleyMar 20, 2017

  • Comics

  • Memoir & Essay

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  An Excuse to Make Noise: On Todd Decker’s “Astaire by Numbers” and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Dancing Down the Barricades”

  Brynn Shiovitz reviews two new books on screen dance, Todd Decker’s “Astaire by Numbers: Time & the Straight White Male Dancer” and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era.”

  Brynn ShiovitzSep 22, 2023

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  The Agony of the Erudite Trumpite

  What to make of "The Case for Trump"?

  Erik D’AmatoMar 24, 2019

  • Politics

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  A Whole Lot of Time Travel and Some Very Good Fiction

  David WittenbergMay 23, 2014

• The Hurt Business

  Brin-Jonathan Butler talks about Mike Tyson, Hemingway, the hurt business, and Cuba's next revolution.

  David BreithauptMay 15, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Sports

• Patience and Virtue: An Interview with Lydia Davis

  I like the book to exist in a sort of middle space, kind of floating.

  Nov 8, 2011

• “I’m Going to Learn How to Make My Own Kind of Life”: On Vashti Bunyan’s “Wayward”

  David Mandl reviews Vashti Bunyan’s memoir “Wayward: Just Another Life to Live.”

  Dave MandlSep 2, 2022

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Music

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  The Struggle to Make the United States Secular

  Johann Neem on David Sehat’s explanation of why American law turned secular in the mid-1900s.

  Johann N. NeemJul 15, 2022

  • Politics

• Make America Austria Again: How Robert Musil Predicted the Rise of Donald Trump

  What can "The Man Without Qualities" teach us about Donald Trump?

  David AuerbachAug 7, 2016

  • Fiction

  • Politics

• Can Jazz Musicians and Short Order Cooks Make You Less Narcissistic?

  Matthew Crawford on how craft and community can reverse modern technology’s divisive, attention-killing influence.

  David GriffithJun 23, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Sentences and Paragraphs to Make Old Age Bearable

  "Hall tells us the meanest truth in such a way that we can smile about it."

  David HuddleJan 10, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

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  From the Age of Persuasion to the Age of Offense

  A new book about why free speech matters, even when it hurts.

  Colin MarshallDec 23, 2019

  • Education

  • Politics

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  Recruitment, Ridicule, and Revolution in “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”

  Electrifying and entertaining, "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." uses rich characters and a gripping plot to make a well-researched, time-traveling adventure.

  David ShipkoMay 26, 2018

  • SF