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Reviews

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

Lean Out

by Dayna Tortorici,

Feminist struggles are labor struggles

Horror Show

by Michelle Dean,

The nightmare logic of Twin Peaks

Into the Wild

by James Marcus,

Henry David Thoreau as prophet, naturalist, and stealth comedian

The Lives of Others

by Jonathan Dee,

Does the social novel have a future?

The Escape Artist

by Ruth Franklin,

Nicole Krauss and her precursors

Liberation Struggle

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Discussed in this essay: Chester B. Himes: A Biography, by Lawrence P. Jackson. W. W. Norton. 640 pages. $35. Early in Chester Himes’s first and best-known novel, If He Hollers…

New Books

by Christine Smallwood,

In Marie NDiaye’s novel MY HEART HEMMED IN (Two Lines Press, $14.95), Nadia and Ange, a middle-aged couple from Bordeaux, become outcasts. “What sort of wickedness, I ask myself, are they suddenly…

Getting In and Out

by Zadie Smith,

Who owns black pain?

Tomb Raiders

by Sheila Fitzpatrick,

The afterlives of Lenin

It Wants to Go to Bed with Us

by Matthew Bevis,

John Ashbery’s well-spent youth

Unseen Worlds

by Yasmine Seale,

Islam’s forgotten reformation

Head-Scratcher

by Christopher Beha,

Can neuroscience finally explain consciousness?

Behind the Fig Leaf

by Elaine Blair,

Mary McCarthy’s sexual revolution

Door to Door

by Francine Prose,

Mohsin Hamid’s displaced persons

Good Plain English

by Nat Segnit,

The problem with writing manuals

No Fool

by Molly Fischer,

Elif Batuman takes on the M.F.A.

Life Choices

by Sam Sacks,

Paul Auster’s multitudes

Wild Things

by Gary Greenberg,

The allure of animal nature

In The Shade

by Jennifer Szalai,

Zadie Smith and the limits of being oneself

Likely Story

by Christopher Tayler,

The inventions of Javier Marías

Destruction Myth

by Anne Applebaum,

The rise and fall of the Romanovs

Ready for Prime Time

by William Deresiewicz,

Why TV Got Good

Flesh and Blood

by Justin Taylor,

The Saga of Halldór Laxness

Are You Kidding?

by Lidija Haas,

The inscrutable sincerity of Nell Zink

Supping on Horrors

by Matthew Bevis,

Thomas De Quincey’s bad habits

The Man Who Loved Metaphors

by Jonathan Dee,

Jonathan Safran Foer’s authorial intrusions

Tennis Lessons

by Geoff Dyer,

The meaning of the game

In Short

by Sarah Manguso,

Thirty-six ways of looking at the aphorism

Don the Realtor

by Martin Amis,

The rise of Trump

Goodbye to All What?

by Michael Wood,

The return of the Brat Pack

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