Reviews
February 2, 2012
Illicit Pleasures: On Edward St Aubyn’s At Last 0
by Ben Hamilton
No one I have read has managed to make the anticipation of a cocaine injection sound as cosy but also as infinitely depressing.
January 31, 2012
People Are Strange: Diane Williams’ Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty 1
by Anne K. Yoder
We can’t escape eccentricity, but we can become habituated to it.
January 30, 2012
Find Myself A City To Live In: Ed Sanders’ Fug You & Will Hermes’ Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 0
by Jesse Jarnow
Finding the entrance points to New York’s musical undergrounds has never been quite as simple as decoding MTA maps, though that’s usually the first step. Two excellent new books chart a decade-and-a-half worth of street-level detail, illuminating not only entrance points, but how they were willed into existence.
January 26, 2012
So, Nu?: Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy 3
by Jessica Freeman-Slade
And therein lies the brilliance of Auslander’s novel: Hope: A Tragedy is about the fact that you can’t escape your own legacy, no matter how great your desire for a better world.
January 24, 2012
Modernity and its Discontents: George Scialabba’s The Modern Predicament 2
by Morten Høi Jensen
I’m going to wager that George Scialabba is the best political critic you’ve never heard of.
January 19, 2012
The Journey to Planet X: Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds 3
by Vanessa Blakeslee
How many have seriously pondered Wonder Woman’s lineage to Diana the Huntress, for example? Or exactly how the superpowers and shortcomings of mythological heroes are conferred on their comic book cousins?
