A New Place of Refuge: On Salka Viertel’s “The Kindness of Strangers”
Alex Harvey appreciates “The Kindness of Strangers,” a classic memoir of Hollywood’s émigré bohemia by Salka Viertel....
That Factual Feeling: Voices of “The Good Immigrant”
The pieces in "The Good Immigrant" knit together experiences that, though sometimes at odds with one another, complicate notions of immigrant life....
X and the Leviathan: Can We Imagine an Alternative Politics of Climate Change?
"To come to grips with climate change, we must first come to grips with capitalism." On Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright's "Climate Leviathan."...
But That Is Not the Story: On Marlon James’s “Black Leopard, Red Wolf”
Understanding Marlon James’s fiction requires reading in a fantastical mode rather than a realist one....
Lessons for the West from the Argentine South: On María Sonia Cristoff’s “False Calm”
Sean McCoy roams through “False Calm” by María Sonia Cristoff, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver....
What’s Wrong with Popular Feminism?
Fran Bigman reviews Sarah Banet-Weiser’s new book on popular feminism, “Empowered.”...
I Have the Best Words: On Bérengère Viennot’s “La Langue de Trump”
Robert Zaretsky reviews “La Langue de Trump” by Bérengère Viennot, the French translator of Donald Trump’s speeches....
“Outside Looking In”: T. C. Boyle’s Drama of Expanded Consciousness and LSD
T. C. Boyle's "Outside Looking In" highlights the sober experience of coming back to reality when the trip is over....
Read It Backward: On Andrei Codrescu’s “no time like now”
Josh Cook considers “no time like now” by Andrei Codrescu....
The Persisting Relevance of Walter Rodney’s “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”
Walter Rodney’s "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" still reads cogently after almost 50 years....
The Chance for Transformation: On Giorgio van Straten’s “In Search of Lost Books”
Dalia Sofer explores “In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes” by Giorgio van Straten....
Hell Down in Hollywood: On Duke Haney’s “Death Valley Superstars”
Peter L. Winkler plumbs the depths of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland” by Duke Haney....
