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Endless Renewal: On Adam Phillips’s “On Giving Up”
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Adam Phillips’s “On Giving Up.”
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
The “Tedious Parody” of Colonialism: On Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors” and Paul Theroux’s “Burma Sahib”
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia: Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors” and Paul Theroux’s “Burma Sahib.”
Rock-Fuel and Warlike People: On Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion”
In an essay that takes off from Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry,” native son Jonah Walters finds something entirely too innocent about the tales told about the anthracite industry’s origins.
Displays of Faith: On Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout”
Courtney Tenz reviews Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout: A Memoir of Doubt.”
The Journey of a Musical Émigré: On Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips”
Herb Randall reviews Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.”
Animals as the Beating Heart of the Planet: On Joe Roman’s “Eat, Poop, Die”
In Joe Roman’s “Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World,” Ferris Jabr finds a compelling account of important scientific insights.
The City in Its Grip: On Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write”
T. M. Brown reviews Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture.”
The Lord of Auschwitz Asks to See a Priest: On James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution”
Jack Miles reviews James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor” in light of the new film “The Zone of Interest.”
Wake Up, Sleepyhead: On David Thomson’s “Remotely”
Peter Campion reviews David Thomson’s “Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV.”
Interviewing the Master Interviewer: A Conversation with Lawrence Grobel
Adam Elder interviews the master interviewer, Lawrence Grobel.
Complex Feminist Fantasias: On Elizabeth Flock’s “The Furies”
Emily Ann Zisko reviews Elizabeth Flock’s “The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice.”
The Place You Now Live: On Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins”
Stephanie Elizondo Griest reviews Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
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