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Medication Nation: Jerry Stahl and his new novel, "Happy Mutant Baby Pills"
Jerry Stahl and the drugs that make us who we are, for better and mostly for worse.
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Lies Like Truth: On Fiction, Reality, and Fictional Reality
Contemporary readers, many brought up on tell-all memoirs, reality shows, and talk shows, now often seem confused about what were once easily discernible borders.
Spies Like Us: On David McCloskey’s “Moscow X”
Katherine Voyles reviews David McCloskey’s “Moscow X.”
I Feel Like a Human Bomb Tick Tick Tick
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reviews the new edition of David Wojnarowicz’s collection “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline.”
No Frigate Like a Metaphor: On Hans Blumenberg’s “The Readability of the World”
Bruce Krajewski reviews Hans Blumenberg “The Readability of the World,” translated by Robert Savage and David Roberts.
David Foster Wallace Said I Spoke to Him Like He Was a Dog
Michelle Dowd looks back on her friendship with David Foster Wallace and how it resonates with her life.
A Moral No-Man’s Land: On David Diop’s “At Night All Blood Is Black”
As a meditation on war, race, and colonialism, Diop’s novel cuts like a dull knife.
Friends Like These: On Thoreau and Emerson
Daegan Miller reviews Jeffrey S. Cramer’s new book about the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The David Mitchell Übernovel: Brian Finney Reviews “Slade House”
Like all Mitchell's novels, "Slade House" belongs to the same Übernovel he has been constructing from the beginning while it remains a self-contained unit.
Albania’s Prophet of the Surveillance State
Like all serious novels, "Twilight of the Eastern Gods" is a novel of history.
Midnight Reckonings
D. Foy is interested in the language and mood of nights like this — when characters attempt to peel away pretense and falsity.
A Practical Communism for the 21st Century
What would a practical communism look like for the 21st century?
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