From Aspiration to Constriction: On Three New Books Examining Change in China
Martin Laflamme reviews three recent books that help understand the opening of China during the 1980s–2000s, and its closing again under Xi Jinping’s...
Martin Laflamme reviews three recent books that help understand the opening of China during the 1980s–2000s, and its closing again under Xi Jinping’s...
Arvind Dilawar reviews Eugene M. Helveston’s “Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox.”
Christopher T. Fan reviews Netflix’s new show “3 Body Problem.”
Anna Gaca reviews Hanna Johansson’s “Antiquity.”
Edward Watts reviews Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.”
Fred Turner reviews Jane Kamensky’s “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below.”
Charlee Dyroff reviews Gina Chung’s “Green Frog.”
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Adam Phillips’s “On Giving Up.”
Greg Barnhisel reviews Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.”
Leah Abrams reviews Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry.”
Jason Thornberry reviews Sarah Tomlinson’s “The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers.”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Katherine Voyles reviews David McCloskey’s “Moscow X.”
Hannah Kofman reviews Helen Oyeyemi's “Parasol Against the Axe.”
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia...
David Shipko reviews Veer Books’ new anthology “Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science/SF.”