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Audiobook Review: Tara Isabella Burton’s “The World Cannot Give” Isn’t Extra Enough
There are two compelling books stuffed into “The World Cannot Give.” The author should have committed to one.
Audiobook Review: Kevin Goetz Shares the Secrets of “Audience-ology”
In “Audience-ology,” Kevin Goetz shares insights from his extensive experience digging into audience opinions about movies.
Book Review: Ed Ruscha, Nels Cline, and David Breskin make a “Dirty Baby” together
“Dirty Baby” is “muttish and raunchy,” but its dirtiness feels constrained and bitter rather than liberating or glorious.
Texts I Sent While Reading “Dune”
Like Arrakis sands through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives. Have you reached the Moment of Tooth? DAMN THOSE HARKONNEN BEASTS
Halloween Audiobook Review: “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
About the book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella is deliciously spooky. Despite its concise length, it takes its time getting to the ..
Halloween Audiobook Review: “Shock Value” and “Paperbacks From Hell”
About the books: Jason Zinoman cites Roger Ebert’s non-review of Night of the Living Dead as a telling inflection point in the history of ..
Halloween Audiobook Review: “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus”
About the book: Turning 200 this year, Mary Shelly’s classic is foundational to speculative fiction. Guillermo del Toro worships all thing..
Re-reading William Sleator; or, We’re All Living in a Steel Playhouse Where Time Speeds Up
I just reread, for the first time since I was a teenager, one of my favorite young adult novels: Singularity, by William Sleator. I didn’t..
Christmas Audiobook Review: Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”
About the book: The timeless Christmas classic, yada yada. The novella so popular it’s spawned innumerable adaptations and a new movie spe..
“100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs” Makes You Look, and Think
How under-appreciated is landscape design? One of the landscapes highlighted by John Hill in 100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs is in my hom..
Suggested Titles for Mary Roach’s Next Book
Poke: The Peculiar Phenomenon of the Erection
Peep: Windows of the World
Poot: The Odd Instance of Demi Lovato’s Doppelgänger
Blo..
“Pics or It Didn’t Happen” Shows What Instagram Shuts Out
Pics or It Didn’t Happen, a potent new book of images collected by Arvida Byström and Molly Soda, opens with Instagram’s republished Commu..