Thirteen Meta-musings Inspired by Leonard Koren’s “Musings of a Curious Aesthete”
Leonard Koren’s musings are more rigorous than most....
Pronominal Strife
Bryan A. Garner considers "What’s Your Pronoun?," the recently published book by Dennis Baron....
Blueprint for Masterworks: On Roberto Bolaño’s “Cowboy Graves”
Richard M. Cho digs up “Cowboy Graves,” the recently published collection of novellas by Roberto Bolaño and translated by Natasha Wimmer....
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”...
Field Notes and Flying Machines: On Te-Ping Chen’s “Land of Big Numbers”
Anjum Hasan reviews the new short story collection from Te-Ping Chen, “Land of Big Numbers.”...
Submersion: The Sensory-Heightened Fiction of Elvira Navarro
Nathan Scott McNamara explores “Rabbit Island,” the new short story collection by Elvira Navarro and translated by Christina MacSweeney....
Vulnerable Outsiders: On D. A. Mishani’s “Three”
Alex Genty-Waksberg reviews D. A. Mishani’s “Three,” translated by Jessica Cohen....
Summoned to the Stand: On Erica McAlpine’s “The Poet’s Mistake”
Declan Ryan vets “The Poet’s Mistake” by Erica McAlpine....
An Empire of Stupidity: On Dubravka Ugrešić’s “The Age of Skin”
A celebrated Croatian cultural critic exposes the thin skin of contemporary democracy....
The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits
Henry M. Cowles evaluates "The Knowledge Machine," the new book by Michael Strevens....
All Souls Rising
An anthology of African American literature arrives right on time....
“I Hate Everything Equally”: Mu Pan’s Ironic Art
Karen Fang finds hope in Mu Pan’s playfully misanthropic art....
