Books
Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.
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Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.
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If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”
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It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.
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Peter Keough has edited a useful, insightful, and delightful new collection of short essays that explore films that appeal to adults who seek childlike glee or awe at the movies.
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If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.
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In this valuable call-to-action, Roger Hallam says we have to recognize that climate change is an emergency and rebel against our extinction.
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Klotsvog ends up being a fascinating literary failure. Good for academics, but bad for readers.
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An eclectic round-up of our favorite books of the year from our critics.
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Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”
José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.
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