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The Costs of Women’s Writing: On Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists”
Thomas McLean reviews Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës.”...
NONFICTION
The Costs of Women’s Writing: On Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists”
Thomas McLean reviews Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës.”...
NONFICTION
Structures of Belonging and Nonbelonging: On Kirsten Silva Gruesz’s “Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons”
Joseph Rezek contemplates “Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas” by Kirsten Silva Gruesz....
HISTORY
The Band’s Massive Weight: On Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” and Jeff Sellars and Kevin C. Neece’s “Rags and Bones”
Ethan Warren reviews “Rags and Bones: An Exploration of the Band” and Criterion’s remaster of Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz.”...
Whose Body Is in the Analog World?: On David Sax’s “The Future Is Analog”
Philosopher Evan Selinger eviscerates David Sax’s unabashedly privileged views in “The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World.”...
Let the Knife Speak: On José Rizal
Gina Apostol explores the works and cultural meanings of the great Filipino rebel-poet José Rizal....
Democracy from the Ashes: On David Stuttard’s “Phoenix”
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn reviews David Stuttard’s “Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens.”...
Democracy from the Ashes: On David Stuttard’s “Phoenix”
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn reviews David Stuttard’s “Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens.”...
HISTORY
Women of Iran Rise and Revolt: On Dora Levy Mossanen’s “Love and War in the Jewish Quarter”
Tabby Refael reviews Dora Levy Mossanen’s new novel “Love and War in the Jewish Quarter.”...
FICTION
The Half-Century in Bullshit: On Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s “The 48 Laws of Power”
Paul Thompson examines the metabolization of bullshit into our lives, by way of analyzing Peter Bogdanovich’s film “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s book “The 48 Laws of Power.”...
FILM
LITERARY CRITICISM
VoiceNotesCore: On Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter”
Greta Rainbow writes about Joanna Hogg’s film “The Eternal Daughter.”...
FILM
Kathryn Ma’s “The Chinese Groove”
Kathryn Ma joins Eric Newman to discuss her most recent novel, “The Chinese Groove.” ...