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Reviews

Insight on the latest books, films, theater, and music.

On the lower frequencies

by Scott Saul,

Rethinking the Black Power movement

Darwin’s conundrum

by David Quammen,

Two worldviews, one writer

Misery loves nothing

by Ben Marcus,

The inimitable Thomas Bernhard

Hysterical scientism

by Marilynne Robinson,

The ecstasy of Richard Dawkins

Toujours Vichy

by Nicholas Fraser,

A reckoning with disgrace

Trivial pursuit

by Kevin Baker,

The fake quest for an "authentic Democrat"

Magic and greed

by Randy Boyagoda,

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's new novel

Ballad for Americans

by Wyatt Mason,

The stories of Edward P. Jones

Half a man, half a metaphor

by William H. Gass,

The unknown Kafka

A fanatical mind

by Robert Boyers,

The novelist and the terrorist

Master of the convincing lie

by David Gargill,

Nathanael West's brilliant distortions

A culture of concealment

by Francine Prose,

The artful warnings of Nadezhda Mandelstam

Fallen boundaries

by Jonathan Dee,

Deborah Eisenberg's big short stories

A man so various

by Geoffrey Wheatcroft,

The misappropriated Winston Churchill

The fog of Europe

by Nicholas Fraser,

A history of triumph and unease

Bleakness

by Randy Boyagoda,

The implacable politics of Jos??© Saramago

The fraternal corrections

by Terry Eagleton,

Opus Dei and the Catholic Church

Clues that lead nowhere

by Robert Boyers,

The impudent Witold Gombrowicz

Walking naked

by Wyatt Mason,

Mary Gaitskill's evolution

The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

by Denis Donoghue,

Taste and middle-class values

Taking names

by Thomas Frank,

Anti-liberalism in theory and practice

Blood and time

by Roger D. Hodge,

Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West

See, memory

by Joel Agee,

The Nazi era and the challenge of film

Grand provocateur

by Jim Shepard,

Lars von Trier's war with himself

Resurrecting Matisse

by Lance Esplund,

A new biography revives the life but not the art

A Jerome of photography

by John Berger,

The camera as an instrument of knowledge

The Still Point of the Turning World

by Jennifer Szalai,

Joan Didion and the opposite of meaning

Grievous angel

by Dwight Garner,

The unruly James Agee

America

by Jeffrey Mehlman,

The opera

White knees

by Wyatt Mason,

Zadie Smith's novel problem

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