- March 15, 2010 | The Book Review
- Boundary Issues
David Shields’s new �manifesto� is a pain in the ars poetica.
- February 22, 2010 | The Book Review
- Derrida and Yummyburgers
When academics get personal.
- February 15, 2010
- The Human Shuffle
Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past?
- February 1, 2010 | The Book Review
- White Noise
Don DeLillo’s latest brings us as close to pure fictional stasis as we’re ever likely to get.
- December 8, 2009 | Reading Room
- Court of Opinion
Taking on Bill Simmons and The Book of Basketball.
- December 14, 2009 | Aughts
- When Lit Blew Into Bits
The meganovel shrank, even as reading itself metastasized.
- December 14, 2009 | Aughts
- The Stick List
New York's critics pick the television programs, books, movies, art, architecture, plays, and pop albums that we'll still be talking about in ten years.
- November 23, 2009 | The Book Review
- A Glorious Mess
Nabokov never wanted us to read his unfinished last novel. Unless, thrillingly, he did.
- February 8, 2010 | Intelligencer
- Social Salinger
Literature’s oddly companionable hermit.
- November 9, 2009 | The Book Review
- Hungry?
The latest in a bumper crop of books about the ethics of eating animals.