A Moral Guide: On Amos Oz’s “Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land”
Seth Greenland responds to “Dear Zealots,” a call for peace by the late Israeli novelist Amos Oz....
From City of Blight to City of Light
Robert Zaretsky looks at the illuminating “City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris” by Rupert Christiansen....
Relationship Counseling for the Apocalypse
A new memoir about how to sustain relationships with others, the planet, and ourselves....
History Lessons: Evie Shockley’s “semiautomatic” and Ange Mlinko’s “Distant Mandate”
Christopher Spaide considers Evie Shockley’s “semiautomatic” and Ange Mlinko’s “Distant Mandate.”...
Not a “No Comment” Person: On Lindsey Hilsum’s “In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews “In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin” by Lindsey Hilsum....
Axis or Allies? World War II and Latin America
Mary Jo McConahay’s “The Tango War” has the heft of comprehensive history and the drama of a spy novel....
A Layover in Greenlandic Fiction Via Niviaq Korneliussen’s “Last Night in Nuuk”
Katharine Coldiron explores the Greenland of Niviaq Korneliussen’s “Last Night in Nuuk” and finds the writing immature but promising....
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
Whatever its imperfections, Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is an original and brilliant work, and it arrives at a crucial moment....
Feasting on Precarity
Uber likes to pretend it isn’t a taxi company, even though it is. The difference is crucial....
With Love and Squalor: On Lili Anolik’s “Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.”
Lauren Sarazen praises “Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.” by Lili Anolik....
When Looks Can Kill: On Antoine Bousquet’s “The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone”
The gaze of warfare is the most penetrating known to humanity....
In Fine Feather
A gorgeous book documents the painting of a laboratory wall....
