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Claudio Lomnitz
Mexico: Anatomy of a Mass Murder

Marcela Turati’s account of the massacres in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, is arguably the most thorough piece of investigative journalism yet produced about Mexico’s brutal political economy.

Colm Tóibín
Haunted by Fiction

In Mark O’Connell’s A Thread of Violence, the murderer Malcolm Macarthur lurks in the gray area between life and literature.

Lola Seaton
Major Details

In Ordinary Human Failings, Megan Nolan works to balance her novel’s ambitious scale and grave themes with an attention to emotional minutiae.

Charlie Lee
Between a Joke & a Prophecy

Ed Park’s latest book—rich with errant wordplay, historical high jinks, and a fixation on the clandestine and conspiratorial—takes its place in the great tradition of the American systems novel.

Andrew Katzenstein
Mode for Joe

The tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson was at once a vessel of tradition and a Romantic individualist, a consummate professional in an art form that lionized rebels.

Sarah Schulman
Ahead of the Diminishing World

Most of the bohemians Alice Neel painted were far from my own queer milieu in downtown New York—but when she turned to that world she captured it with energy and defiance.

Free from the Archives

In the Review’s August 18, 1988, issue, Stephen Jay Gould wrote about Joe DiMaggio—whose record for getting a hit in fifty-six consecutive baseball games was then and remains unbroken—statistics, and mythology.

Stephen Jay Gould
The Streak of Streaks

“Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak is both the greatest factual achievement in the history of baseball and a principal icon of American mythology. What shall we do with such a central item of our cultural history?”

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