Books
“Hard to Watch” lays out a pragmatic path — directions for how to preserve your time and attention — that will help just about anybody engage with any kind of art thoughtfully and purposefully.
Bruna Dantas Lobato’s sensibility is unmistakably original: she explores her protagonist’s life and surroundings like a dowsing rod, poking into closets, corners, and cupboards.
This memoir is, in part, Gene Yu’s effort to give credit where credit is due for his rescue of a woman kidnapped by the Jihadist terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.
Critic John DiLeo argues that even the Academy Awards can make mistakes. And, in the process, he constructs an alternate history of who should or should not have been Oscar nominees.
Cecile Desprairies’ extraordinary work is a cross between the dispassionate inquiry of a historian and a family memoir whose author is searching for catharsis at the end of her attempt to understand her family’s place in the Nazi-collaborationist narrative.
William A. Everett’s book is well-researched but based on a problematic premise.
Time and again, Alice Fogel’s poems’ subtractions have a purifying effect, showing us a landscape or an architecture we hadn’t guessed was there.
A magical realist romp of a novel with a dollop of poignancy by the great Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov.
Musa Al-Gharbi’s provocative book undercuts the left elite by pointing out the hypocrisy of its well intentioned rhetoric. The “woke” live comfortable lives because of the very inequities they condemn.
Rachel Kushner’s latest novel is mélange of vignettes, stand-alone or linked flash essays, and portentous bits of wisdom.
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