Reviews
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Sarah Selden reviews The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
For the Grieving Sentimentalist: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo”
Brody Eldridge reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)
Reimagining, Restructuring, and Remembering Society
Samantha Wilber reviews The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tor Publishing Group, 2024)
Good Reader, Bad Reader: A Book for Both?
Sarah Selden reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner, 2024)
Cormac McCarthy’s Walking Dead
Brody Eldridge reviews Manu Larcenet’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road (Abrams ComicArts, 2024)
The Trees that Outlast and Tending One's Own Garden in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's The Bullet Swallower
Brody Eldridge reviews The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
The Book Twain Couldn’t Write
Sarah Selden reviews Percival Everett's James (Doubleday, 2024)
"What Can We Know of Other People?" Zadie Smith's “The Fraud” and New Sincerity
Brody Eldridge reviews Zadie Smith's The Fraud (Penguin, 2023)
Reflecting the past in the present
Michael Taylor reviews First Frost: A Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson
In Which Girls Save the Day
Cecelia Larsen reviews Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol (First Second, 2024) and Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg (Harry N. Abrams, 2024)
Literary Ascents and the Human Search for Meaning
Sarah Selden reviews Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
Fall in Love with a Doomed Arctic Explorer: Time Travel Edition
Larsen reviews The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
An Exquisite Chronicle of an Ordinary American Family
Jenifer Elmore reviews French Braid by Anne Tyler
Alternate Histories: An Alternate History
Joel Harold Tannenbaum reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford