Books
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
Chang and Eng, the “Siamese Twins”
A review of two biographies of the performers—by Yunte Huang and Joseph Andrew Orser—who became slaveholders after their success in the circus. (“The Great Assimilationists,” The New York Review of Books)Chang and Eng, the “Siamese Twins”
Mathias Énard
A review of the novelist’s “Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants.” (“Michelangelo à la Turk,” The New Yorker)Mathias Énard
Patrick Chamoiseau’s “Slave Old Man”
A review of the Martinican writer’s novel about an elderly runaway. (The New York Times Book Review)Patrick Chamoiseau’s “Slave Old Man”