A Kind of Humanity: Herzog at 50
/It's been half a century since the appearance of Saul Bellow's seminal novel Herzog - Jack Hanson revisits the work to see how Bellow's various machinations have held up over time.
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/Christopher Beha's new novel Arts and Entertainments aims to be that weirdest of all things: a serious, even elegant, book about ... reality television. As our reviewer reports, the oddity is that it was even attempted, and the wonder is that it succeeds so well.
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Read MoreTitle Menu: 10 Minutes from Prometheus
/Ridley Scott's Prometheus, ill-served by critics when it appeared last year, is the finest sequel to the Alien movies yet made. Our contributing editor chooses ten exemplary minutes to make his case.
Read MoreA Walker in the City
/In the world of Julie Hayden's stories, the contingency of all experience, let alone of literary creation and reputation, is inescapable.
Read MoreHigh and Outside
/Uncertain Justice, by Lawrence Tribe and Joshua Matz, suggests that personality plays a greater role than ideology in today's Supreme Court. David Culberg assesses the arguments.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Fear is a contagious disease”
/A tightly drawn disturbing novel, The Frozen Dead is Bernard Minier’s auspicious debut. The Long Way Home is the tenth in Louise Penny’s celebrated Armand Gamache series.
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