by JJ Amaworo Wilson | Feb 16, 2026 | Reviews
Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht: A New Intellectual History, 1900-1950by Katherine Hollander (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025) To say Bertolt Brecht had an eventful life would be an understatement. He fathered four children by three women; enjoyed a dazzling...
by Jeffrey Arlo Brown | Jan 19, 2026 | Reviews
Peace is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O’BrienBy Alex VernonSt. Martin’s Press, 2025 Tim O’Brien’s thirteen-month deployment to Vietnam produced The Things They Carried, his indelible literary response to the war. He was a college student from Worthington,...
by Emmanuel Merle | Dec 28, 2025 | Reviews
*Translated into English by Peter Brown and Caroline Talpe. You can read Emmanuel’s original review in French here. Gaza, Is There Life Before Death?An anthology of poems, translated from Palestinian Arabic to French by Abdellatif Laâbi, collected by Yassin...
by Ruth Hoberman | Nov 30, 2025 | Reviews
New York TrilogyBy Peter BalakianThe University of Chicago Press, 2025 Here’s a strange thing: as I read Peter Balakian’s New York Trilogy, I kept thinking of Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach.” Not because they resemble each other—although in both poems a pair of lovers...
by David Roochnik | Oct 12, 2025 | Reviews
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This By Omar El Akkad New York: Knopf, 2025. 187 pp. This, in the title of Omar El Akkad’s remarkable book, refers to the slaughter of tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza; a slaughter perpetrated...
by Alice Stephens | Aug 11, 2025 | Reviews
Director: Hyun kyung KimReleased: April 26, 2023 (Visions du Réel Film Festival, premiere)YouTube Trailer In the preamble to the documentary film, Defectors, directed by Hyun kyung Kim, a montage made with a map and scissors illustrates how the history of modern Korea...
by Joanna Chen | Jul 20, 2025 | Reviews
Peter Beinart’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, January 28, 2025), constructs a specific narrative for Jews wrestling with Israel’s actions in Gaza and its dire consequences. The title is perhaps misleading; a more...
by Fred Marchant | May 7, 2025 | Reviews
Communiqués by Maria Galina / Russian and English, bi-lingual edition Translated by Anna Halberstadt & Ainsley Morse.Cicada Press, New York. (2023-24) $22.00. Those Absences Now Closest by Dzvinia OrlowskyCarnegie Mellon Press, Pittsburgh. (2024) $20.00 Maria...
by David Roochnik | Dec 7, 2024 | Reviews
The Beinart Notebook is a Substack site with a weekly “show” (via Zoom) in which the journalist Peter Beinart discusses issues concerning Israel-Palestine with his guests. These presentations are a marvelous, even inspiring, model of rational conversation about...
by Elizabeth Ferry | Sep 30, 2024 | Reviews
In her paramedic training, Ieva Jusionyte was told, when dealing with gunshot victims, to “always look for the exit wound.” Exit wounds are larger and more irregular than entry wounds, and their location helps medical workers discover the pathway a bullet has taken...
