This Broken World: On “The Banner Saga”
Video games might seem an odd place to turn for representations of environmental collapse, but "The Banner Saga" accomplishes what other mediums have not....
Himmler’s Antiquity
Alison C. Traweek discusses the racist origins of classics as a discipline....
California Sons: Miriam Pawel’s “The Browns of California”
Jake Wertz reviews “The Browns of California,” a four-generation biography of the Brown family and a portrait of the state they shaped....
Cold War Cold Files
A Hungarian author confronts his parents’ Cold War past....
Writing Algeria
Kamel Daoud is a brilliant, indeed dazzling, thinker: his sharp turns in thought and language, as well as his subject matter, gave me motion sickness....
Ted Hearne’s Political Soundscapes
David Hadju on Ted Hearne’s ambiguous political aesthetic....
Asylum, Again: Why We Need to Stop Punishing the Mentally Ill
As more and more prisons become warehouses for the mentally ill, is it time to go back to the asylum?...
Giving Voice to the Various
Ben Fountain takes a look at his country and describes it in dazzling language....
American Idiots, American Killers, and the American Graphic Novel
Paul Morton reviews Jules Feiffer's latest graphic novel, "The Ghost Script."...
The Biggest US City That Shouldn’t Exist
An entertaining history of one of the United States’s most improbable cities....
The Great Red North
Gabriel Winant considers Barry Eidlin’s answer to the perennial question: why has leftism fared better in Canada?...
The Rock That Breaks and Breaks
A new book about the fracking boom hits close to home....
