Verso Review by Brian Tanguay David Harvey has been writing about, interpreting and teaching Karl Marx for decades. In The Story of Capital he ambitiously attempts to explain Marx’s key…
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Into the Weeds by Lydia Davis
Yale Review by David Starkey Anyone familiar with the wry and tricksy stories of Lydia Davis will not be surprised that in Into the Weeds—her book-length response to the question…
The Art of Becoming a Citizen: a memoir by Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay It’s the autumn of 1961 and twenty-four-year-old Gail Godwin is in New York City, living temporarily at the Martha Washington Hotel on East Thirtieth Street.…
Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta
Scribner Walter Cummins Ghost towns are usually pictured as abandoned places of decaying windowless houses and barren streets. Creamwood, New Jersey, is certainly not own of those, but a busy…
Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital by David Browne
Hachette Review by Walter Cummins “Slow Fall” suggests that the book is an elegy, but what actually happened to Manhattan’s West Village musical scene is that it took over the…
The Man Who Stopped The Sultan: Gabriele Tadino & The Defence Of Europe by Edoardo Albert
Osprey Review by Brian Tanguay Unless you happen to be a historian of the 15th and 16th centuries, or extraordinarily well-read about that time period, I’d bet you’ve never heard…
Dickens in Brooklyn by Jay Neugeboren
Eastover Review by Walter Cummins I met Jay Neugeboren at the book launch for a mutual friend after knowing about his writing for years. We shook hands and had a…
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums by Dolly Jørgensen
Chicago Review by David Starkey I have to admit that as I was reading through Dolly Jørgensen’s Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinctions in Museums, I sometimes wondered what, exactly, I…
Gerhard Richter, edited by Dieter Schwarz and Nicholas Serota
Citadelles & Mazenod Review by David Starkey Honestly, I’m not sure what to make of Gerhard Richter. Like anyone who has visited art museums over the years, I’ve seen plenty…