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The Last Avant-Garde
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
Criticism
When a Woman Turns into a Wife
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
A Treasure Trove of Suppressed Feeling
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
The Season of Lost Souls
Hamilton Cain reviews the prolific Irish author Kevin Barry’s new literary Western, “The Heart in Winter.”
America’s War on Theater
Daniel Blank reviews James Shapiro’s “The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.”
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From the Archive
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How Trump Won, Part 57
Donald Trump harnessed racial resentment to win the presidency, and it gets abundant statistical treatment in a new book.
When Not Every Second Counts
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Michael Szalay reviews season three of FX’s “The Bear.”
Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
Punishing the People We Claim to Protect
Gaby Del Valle reviews Kimberly Meyer’s “Accidental Sisters” and Susan J. Terrio’s “Forced Out.”
Life in the Archive
Rowland Bagnall reviews the recent rerelease of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory.”
What Women Want, per Catherine Breillat
Lori Marso reviews Catherine Breillat’s film “Last Summer” in the context of the director’s body of work, as well as alongside the recent Miranda...
Chronicles of Liminality
Tristan Marshall, a graduate of the foster care system, considers Rob Henderson’s “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.”
Reconfiguring the Categories
Yelena Furman reviews Karolina Krasuska’s “Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction.”
A Freak Flag Flown at Half-Mast
Adam Nayman considers Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film “Kinds of Kindness” amid the provocateur director’s broader body of work.
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