Fall 2024 Online Edition

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INTERVIEWS

FICTION REVIEWS

Scaffolding
The Anthropologists

The question of how to take up space—a question particularly relevant in the wake of the pandemic—is the common theme of Lauren Elkin’s Scaffolding and Ayşegül Savaş’s The Anthropologists.
Reviewed by Sarah Moorhouse

Satellite Image

Beyond its traditional thriller elements, Michelle Berry’s latest novel offers insight into the often-unsettling process of settling into a new home.

Reviewed by Adam McPhee

Our Long Marvelous Dying

In their latest novel, physician-writer Anna DeForest explores the existential challenges that abound in the world of palliative care.

Reviewed by Xi Chen

Until August

The mere presence of Until August, often described as Gabriel García Márquez’s “lost novel,” calls readers to ponder both its story and its backstory.

Reviewed by Emil Siekkinen

NONFICTION REVIEWS

1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has written a relentlessly inventive memoir that captures how the simple events in a young life turn out to become culture itself.

Reviewed by Frank Randall

The Swans of Harlem

Karen Valby’s compelling new history tells the forgotten story of Dance Theatre of Harlem, a Black ballet company that gave dancers of color the opportunity to perform and star when most doors in the industry were closed to them.

Reviewed by Charles Green

Who's Afraid of Gender?

In their latest book, Judith Butler addresses the general public as one of the leading thinkers in gender studies.

Reviewed by John M. Fredericks

POETRY REVIEWS

Into the Good World Again

Poet Max Garland’s quiet and profound fourth collection uses themes of the pandemic—isolation, distance, time, breath—to approach existential questions.

Reviewed by Catherine Jagoe

Diary of a String

Mark Francis Johnson’s new collection addresses the miasmic illnesses of modernity and offers a chance to reckon with the forced obsolescence of the sublime.

Reviewed by Eric Tyler Benick

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