Criticism
New Books (Anyuru, Secrest, Hendrickson)
Reviews of Johannes Anyuru’s “They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears,” Meryle Secrest’s “The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti,” and Janet Hendrickson’s “Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language” (Harper’s)New Books (Anyuru, Secrest, Hendrickson)
New Books (Chu, Robin, Oyamada)
Reviews of Andrea Long Chu’s “Females,” Corey Robin’s “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas,” and Hiroko Oyamada’s “The Factory” (Harper’s)New Books (Chu, Robin, Oyamada)
Caleb Crain, Yoko Ogawa, and Digital Surveillance
A review-essay on two novels concerned with surveillance. (The New York Times Book Review)Caleb Crain, Yoko Ogawa, and Digital Surveillance
New Books (Tokarczuk, Watson, Folarin)
Reviews of Olga Tokarczuk’s “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones), Lyall Watson’s “Heaven’s Breath,” and Tope Folarin’s “A Particular Kind of Black Man” (Harper’s)New Books (Tokarczuk, Watson, Folarin)
New Books (Gates, Eagleton, Flores)
Reviews of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road,” Terry Eagleton’s “Humour,” and Fernando A. Flores’s “Tears of the Trufflepig.” (Harper’s)New Books (Gates, Eagleton, Flores)
Ian McEwan’s Robot Novel
A review of “Machines Like Me.” (The New Yorker)Ian McEwan’s Robot Novel
Mathias Énard
A review of the novelist’s “Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants.” (“Michelangelo à la Turk,” The New Yorker)Mathias Énard