The Singular Power of Writing: A Conversation with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Otis Houston speaks to Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of “Losing My Cool” and “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”...
Rewriting the West: A Discussion About the Cultural History of the American “Frontier”
A conversation with Michelle García, Carolina A. Miranda, and Fernanda Santos of “Rewriting the West,” a partnership between Michelle García and “Guernica.”...
Wit and Wisdom at the 35th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Sean McCoy reports from the 35th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada....
Russianness Under Foreign Skies: On Edyta M. Bojanowska’s “A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada”
Yelena Furman navigates “A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada,” by Edyta M. Bojanowska....
The Necessity of Being Judgmental: On “k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher”
"k-punk" is a primer in how to write cultural criticism today. If it is a catastrophe that we no longer have Mark Fisher, we at least have this collection....
Menu Matters: On Alison Pearlman’s “May We Suggest”
India Mandelkern samples “May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion” by Alison Pearlman....
Posthumanism for Regular Humans Trapped in an Inhuman World: On “The Human Reimagined”
Aaron Winslow is stimulated by “The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia,” an “essential volume” edited by Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt....
“No Demons Amongst Us”: On Simon Lancaster’s “You Are Not Human: How Words Kill”
Houman Barekat looks closely at “You Are Not Human: How Words Kill” by Simon Lancaster....
Love in the Age of Data
Alfie Bown considers how data shapes love and sex today....
Learning from Weirdos
Gayle Rogers reviews Jonathan P. Eburne's history of unorthodox ideas....
The Walls Speak: Excavating the Chinese Immigration Experience at Angel Island
Teow Lim Goh uncovers the ongoing effort by scholars and poets to preserve the Chinese immigrant experience at Angel Island through its lost poetry....
A Patient Observation of Human Beings
Fabien Truong’s book is a thoughtful, well-crafted ethnography that humanizes the faceless, amorphous “Muslim youth” of the French banlieues....
