Criticism
“Reconstructions” at MOMA
Review of an exhibition on architecture and imagining black futures. (Art in America)“Reconstructions” at MOMA
Hervé Guibert
A review-essay on Hervé Guibert. (“Death Sentences,” The New Yorker)Hervé Guibert
New Books (Origo, Nettel, Raffles)
Reviews of Iris Origo’s The Merchant of Prato,” Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar,” David A. Bell’s “Men on Horseback,” and Hugh Raffles’s “The Book of Unconformities” (Harper’s)New Books (Origo, Nettel, Raffles)
New Books (Ball, Sheldrake, Jong)
Reviews of Edward Ball’s “Life of a Klansman,” Merlin Sheldrake’s “Entangled Life,” Yuri Herrera’s “A Silent Fury,” and Dola de Jong’s “The Tree and the Vine” (Harper’s)New Books (Ball, Sheldrake, Jong)
New Books (Dorman, Golia, Ferris, Adimi)
Reviews of Jacob S. Dorman’s “The Princess and the Prophet,” Maria Golia’s “Ornette Coleman,” Toby Ferris’s “Short Life in a Strange World,” and Kaouther Adimi’s “Our Riches” (trans. Chris Andrews) (Harper’s)New Books (Dorman, Golia, Ferris, Adimi)
Fernanda Melchor’s “Hurricane Season”
A review of the novelist’s dark fairy tale exploration of femicide in Mexico. (The New York Times Book Review)Fernanda Melchor’s “Hurricane Season”
New Books (Greenwell, Brown, Condé)
Reviews of Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness,” Vincent Brown’s “Tacky’s Revolt,” and Maryse Condé’s “Of Morsels and Marvels” (Harper’s)New Books (Greenwell, Brown, Condé)