Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay No journalist that I’m aware of has chronicled the rise of the Christian right as assiduously and comprehensively as Katherine Stewart has. From her first…
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Playground by Richard Powers
Norton Review by David Starkey In some ways, Richard Powers’ new novel Playground is a double bildungsroman, showing us the youth and early adulthood of Todd Kean—white, a native of…
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood by Gail Crowther
Gallery Books Review by George Yatchisin Late in her life Dorothy Parker claimed during an interview that if she wrote a memoir—which she was loathe to do (and never did)—she…
The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. by Martin Aitken
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins Stories of alternative realities are especially popular today. When I was teaching in an MFA program, more and more young students were abandoning literary realism…
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 – 2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Metropolitan Books Review by Brian Tanguay Of the many books Rashid Khalidi has written about Palestine, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine is by far his most personal one. Khalidi…
Plastic by Scott Guild
Pantheon Review by George Yatchisin The best speculative fiction gives us the distance to see our own world more clearly. Take Scott Guild’s debut novel Plastic. Most of its characters…
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Walter Cummins Sally Rooney’s central charterers in Intermezzo, her fourth novel, talk quite a bit, just about every time they interact, hashing and rehashing…
The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness by Leslie Valiant
Princeton Review by Walter Cummins As I read the explanatory chapters of Leslie Valiant’s The Importance of Being Educable—winner of the Turing Award, I found myself quibbling with him about…
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
One World Review by Brian Tanguay “I think this tradition of writing, of drawing out a common humanity, is indispensable to our future, if only because what must be cultivated…
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
Random House Review by David Starkey I honestly don’t know how much I would have enjoyed Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Tell Me Everything, if I hadn’t already been familiar with…