Antonia Hylton’s ‘Madness’ Illuminates the Shadows of Racial Injustice
Madness is a scathing indictment of how Black Americans are disproportionately affected by mental health stigmas, inadequate care, and systemic neglect.
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When the Migrants Come to Collect Their Due: On Suketu Mehta’s ‘This Land Is Our Land’
Suketu Mehta offers a powerful, angry, and brilliant defense of immigrant rights in This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto.
Olivier Assayas’ ‘Non-Fiction’ Fiddles with Seriousness
In Olivier Assayas' speedy, slightly wan dispatch from salon society, Non-Fiction (Doubles vie), Parisians have badly concealed affairs and argue loudly but inconclusively about books and society.
Satire’s American King Bret Easton Ellis Whites Himself Out with Alleged Work of Non-Fiction, ‘White’
Let's pretend for a moment that Bret Easton Ellis is capable of such a staggering feat of truth-telling, and read White as if it is indeed a work of nonfiction.
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Literature? Olivier Assayas’ ‘Non-Fiction’
By satirizing the French literary intelligentsia, Assayas' Non-Fiction (Doubles vie) chronicles the hypocrisies of the modern psyche without attaching itself to any particular worldview.
‘Ghosts of the Tsunami’ Easily Ranks Among the Best Accomplishments of Journalistic Narrative This Century
Richard Parry investigates what happened at Okawa Elementary following the 2011 earthquake, and what broader lessons the tragedy teaches us.
On Sound and Rhythm in Text: Angela Leighton’s ‘Hearing Things’
Imaginative listening while reading, as Leighton demonstrates so masterfully, is not only a form of cognition but also a physical experience as we read or write literary texts.
‘Talking to My Daughter About the Economy’, and Putting Economists In Their Place
Yanis Varoufakis treats with disdain the idea that economics is a real science – it's more like a contemporary form of religion, propped up by ruling elites to make gullible everyday people remain subservient and go along with the elites' bad and self-serving ideas, he says.
On Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Loss: ‘The Dark Interval’
Letter-writing allowed Rainer Maria Rilke to turn intimate one-on-one communication into a carefully-crafted artifact in its own right that transcended time itself.
Chris Stamey’s Homage to the New York Music Scene of the ’70s
A Spy In The House of Loud works best on quiet stages, taking singular trips down clearly paved roads with definite endings.
‘Elements of Surprise’ and the Pleasures of Being Had
Vera Tobin's work helps dispel 20th-century Freudian notions that we are made up of many inexplicable facets, that our motives are unknown to us, and that we repress all that we cannot deal with.
Did Women Writers Change the 20th Century New York Intellectual Scene?
Michelle Dean's Sharp challenges readers to consider what we gain from reading the lives and works of women writers and how they shaped cultural and socio-political thought in the 20th century and beyond.