5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“I can’t think of another novel that treats the Earth’s plight with such an expansive and disorienting vision.”
How an Eccentric Doctor Began His Quest For Utopia in Weimar Berlin
Abbott Kahler Tells a Story of Alternative Medicine and Emotional Manipulation on the Eve of Nazi Takeover
The Annotated Nightstand: What Isabella Hammad Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Enrique Vila-Matas, Dinaw Mengestu, Hussein Barghouthi, and Others
An Expat’s Homebase: How the Iconic Village Voice Bookshop in Paris Launched Lit Mags
Odile Hellier Reflects on the Work of John Strand, Kathy Acker, Ricardo Mosner, and More
Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Over the World Anytime Soon
Nicole Kobie on the Potential and Limits of Android Intelligence and Autonomy
“Good Medicine and a Very Bad Drug…” Reckoning With the Deadly Duality of Fentanyl
Ryan Hampton Considers Addiction, Recovery, and the Human Cost of the Drug Crisis in America
Myriam J.A. Chancy on Haitian American Communities
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
I Wrote a Trans Memoir Without Even Knowing It (at First)
Oliver Radclyffe on the Long and Winding Road to Publication Day
Freedom and Responsibility: Why Earth’s Survival Depends on All of Us
Sunil Amrith on the Imperative Need to Understand the Long History of Human Impact on the Environment
Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong
Elyse Graham Explores the Mundane Yet Dangerous World of Espionage During the Second World War
How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis on the Systematic Post-War Displacement of Communities of Color
The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction
John MacNeill Miller on Harriet Martineau’s Prescient Vision of Humanity
What We Owe Each Other: A Daughter on Her Mother’s Wish to Die With Dignity
Marianne Brooker: “We are interdependent, both separate from and reliant upon others.”
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