Be the Alien: On Julio Torres’s “Problemista”
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
Criticism
Reviews and essays about books, across all genres and subjects.
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor.”
Jessica Rizzo reviews David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.”
Ruth Joffre reviews Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark.”
Alice Courtright reviews Marie Howe’s “New and Selected Poems.”
“Exhalation: Stories” is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction, from an author whose star will only continue to rise.
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.”
Jamal Batts reviews Robeson Taj Frazier’s “KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell.”
Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews Austin Frerick’s “Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food.”
Heather Treseler reviews April Gibson’s “The Span of a Small Forever” and Alice Notley’s “Being Reflected Upon.”
Ian Ellison reviews Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain.”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Ryan Coleman reports from the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.