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Violence Repeated: On Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation”
Anabelle Johnston reviews Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation.”
Criticism
Reviews and essays about books, across all genres and subjects.
Stacked Time: On April Gibson’s “The Span of a Small Forever” and Alice Notley’s “Being Reflected Upon”
Heather Treseler reviews April Gibson’s “The Span of a Small Forever” and Alice Notley’s “Being Reflected Upon.”
A Transatlantic Metamorphosis: On Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists”
Ian Ellison reviews Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain.”
Toward a Genealogy of Fossil Capitalism: On Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Watching in L.A.: The Los Angeles Festival of Movies’ First Year
Ryan Coleman reports from the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
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From the Archive
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Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other
ISRAEL'S RECENT MILITARY ASSAULT on Gaza serves as a reminder of the continuing urgency of the Palestinian question, which has been a topic of...
Respect Is Just a Minimum: On HBO Max’s “Rap Sh!t”
Alyx Vesey bemoans the cancellation of HBO Max’s series about a female hip-hop duo, “Rap Sh!t.”
Begin Again: On Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation”
Renee Hudson reviews Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites.”
War, Perpetuated: On Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence Is Mandatory”
Svetlana Satchkova reviews Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence Is Mandatory.”
Dirty Digits and “Pleasant Landscapes”: On Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism”
After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon...
Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness: On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things”
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”
What Scientists Can’t See: On Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot”
Robert P. Crease reviews Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.”
Recovering Worlds: On Mireille Gansel’s “Soul House”
Shoshana Olidort reviews Mireille Gansel’s “Soul House.”
Sweet Emptiness: On Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera”
Brittany Menjivar reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
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