Review
In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker’s John is a haunting feminist drama about women and madness.
Dark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.
We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.
This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.
One of Unknown Soldier’s powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.
The trio’s musical offerings were substantial and not the easiest things for an occasional group to pull together.
James Tate remains true to himself. These prose-poems are often stellar, harrowingly distinctive, and worthy of repeat visits.
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