William Morrow Review by Linda Lappin Crossing from the Oltrarno into the heart of Florence, I always paused to admire the view from the Santa Trinità bridge: a checkerboard of…
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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America by Jane Borden
One Signal Review by Brian Tanguay I met Jane Borden at the inaugural Santa Barbara Literary Festival. As I listened to her talk about her book, Cults Like Us, I…
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Walter Cummins The title defines the issue. This novel is a transcription of several experiences, especially conversations and interviews meant to serve as a…
I Hear A New World by Alan Moore
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I had to read Alan Moore’s The Great When twice to fully appreciate it. At the time I wasn’t at all familiar with Moore’s body…
The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works by David Harvey
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…
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…