January 13 – 17, 2025
- Daegan Miller considers Hannah Arendt’s poetry
- Teju Cole on photographs of the Los Angeles fires
- The myriad abuse allegations against Neil Gaiman
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Of War and Capitalism: The Debate About All Quiet on the Western Front Goes All the Way Back to the Book
Bruce Krajewski on the Criticism of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 Novel and Its Oscar-Nominated Adaptation
Revelations of Language: On Prose Poetry and the Beauty of a Single Sentence
Nick Ripatrazone Looks at Journals Dedicated to the Prose Poem
More to Say: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection of Essays, Donald Barthelme, and the Chinese Spy Balloon
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Michael Schulman on the Icons Who Shaped the Oscars (for Better and for Worse)
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“All the culture war Mad Libs can’t distract from the dull coldness at this book’s core.”
“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write
Because Sometimes You Have to Go Back to East Texas to Find Your Voice
A Multiverse of Words: Mirza Waheed on the Happy Coincidences of Omnivorous Reading
“I’ve been trying to bring back to life that old, unencumbered young reader who reads what absorbs him, at leisure, at ease.”
Just the Right Book: What We’re Reading
Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein Talk New and Noteworthy Books
On Borders Concrete and Intangible: A Reading List of the Inbetween
Fatin Abbas Recommends J.M. Coetzee, Fatima Mernissi, and More
On the Nerds and Jocks of Yale: Will Schwalbe Revisits the Start of an Unlikely Friendship
“I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn’t care what other people thought of me.”
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