by Lucas Lyndes Latin American fiction in translation has essentially had two watershed moments in the United States.
Review: Tenth of December by George Saunders
by Carmen Petaccio Tenth of December is Saunders's second best collection of short stories, and when I first wrote this sentence it was his third...
Review: This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
by Alexandra Watson Díaz has the ability to blend diverse modes, code-switching between academic English, street English, Spanish, Dominican Spanish. Few other authors could pull...
Review: Helmut Newton Retrospective
by Tomek Jedrowski “I am very attracted by bad taste -- it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing...
Review: The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
by Austen Rosenfeld Witnesses of paranormal phenomena no longer belong to the fringes of society. Julavits’ alternate world institutionalizes astrology and magic practice as a...
Review: Hilary Berseth Exhibit
by Ela Bittencourt The sculptures were cacti-like formations, with soft curvatures and elegant flowing lines; the poetic manifestation of mathematical formulas embedded in the natural...
Review: Paris Photo
by Tomek Jedrowski Every year, photohysteria descends on Paris in the form of the world’s leading photography fair, Paris Photo.
Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
by Jaime R. Herndon The incessant name-dropping of various authors, pop culture references and literary theories clutters the first part of the book. It makes...
Review: Cyprien Gaillard Exhibit
by Alice Pfeiffer The forgotten yet oddly spectacular spaces encourage viewers to reconsider their standards of beauty.
Review: No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
by Ella Delany Yet the success of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series suggests we are happy to leave reality tucked away.
Review: Inside By Alex Ohlin
by Yardenne Greenspan As an MFA student, I find this book comforting.
Review: Summer 2010’s Greatest Hits
by Austen Rosenfeld Rather than telling stories the“old- fashioned” way, a consistent forward-moving narrative revealed from a single protagonist, these books present their stories from...