Reviews
As a “cultural geographer” wanders through abandoned industrial buildings in “Curated Decay,” Brian Fawcett wonders whether “autoethnography” is just another fancy academic term for preferring self-therapy to dealing with the mess in Detroit and the rest of a dying planet.
How Albert Camus’s literary classic came into being, despite an absurd world and an absent divinity.
Reading the far-right subculture.
In Spain’s capital there are absent poets, the absence of government, and terrace cafes on a late summer afternoon
Veteran writers Gay Talese and Calvin Trillin come under digital fire. The Old People’s Review of Books rushes to their defense.
Eyes on the Spies. Revisiting the Cold War with Steven Spielberg and John le Carre.
Brian Fawcett tries to figure out why Nino Ricci’s new novel, Sleep, didn’t register with Canada’s Book Prize Juries.
It’s Oscar season. Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth” isn’t nominated for Best Picture, but it’s as interesting as anything else on view.