Book Reviews

On the first day, the drivers had to attack the walls of ancient mountain paths with pickaxes so their machines could pass through. Godard and the journalist accompanying him almost...

OUR KINDRED CREATURES: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals, by Bill Wasik and Monica MurphyIn 2007, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...

Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History, Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Miranda July’s All Fours, and Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you...

Scott Morrison’s new book ‘Plans for Your Good’ hit the shelves last week and The Chaser’s John Delmenico was one of the few hundred people who actually bought a copy....

MASSACRE IN THE CLOUDS: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History, by Kim A. WagnerThey are sites of atrocity so shameful that they have become a searing shorthand: Wounded...

Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just...

Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just...

THE SILENCE OF THE CHOIR, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Translated by Alison Anderson.At some point in recent history, the merits of reading literary fiction became inextricably entwined with the genre’s...

The multitalented artist Miranda July has written a wildly sexual book about a woman approaching menopause, so of course it’s time for a square old man to pass judgment.But first,...