- May 17, 2010
- The Return of Martin Amis
A sexy novel about sex�and sex alone�has reenergized him, just when his fans were giving up hope.
- May 3, 2010
- Family Album
Anne Carson’s deeply moving scrap heap.
- April 12, 2010
- Hi, Robot
The history of the vocoder, cryptography’s top-secret funk machine.
- March 4, 2010
- No More Heroes
Michael Lewis tries hard to pluck champions from the financial crisis in his new book, The Big Short, but overlooks the most weirdly authentic hero of all.
- March 15, 2010
- Boundary Issues
David Shields’s new �manifesto� is a pain in the ars poetica.
- February 22, 2010
- Derrida and Yummyburgers
When academics get personal.
- February 1, 2010
- White Noise
Don DeLillo’s latest brings us as close to pure fictional stasis as we’re ever likely to get.
- November 23, 2009
- A Glorious Mess
Nabokov never wanted us to read his unfinished last novel. Unless, thrillingly, he did.
- November 9, 2009
- Hungry?
The latest in a bumper crop of books about the ethics of eating animals.
- September 14, 2009
- Sussex Chainsaw Massacre
The horrification of Jane Austen.