Article What Did Obama Mean? In his debut novel, Vinson Cunningham locates Obama's power in his opacity. By Phil Christman April 30, 2024 Barack Obama Books Fiction
Article Percival Everett Is Having a Moment The publishing industry tends to marginalize a writer like Percival Everett twice. He’s escaping confinement on the sheer brilliance of his novels. By Phil Christman December 8, 2023 Christmas Critics Books Race
Article The Ghosts and Jokes of Cormac McCarthy “I have lately come into possession of a fact that threatens my very sense of things. It is this: Cormac McCarthy is funny.” By Phil Christman March 6, 2023 Books Culture
Article A Change of Hart? What, exactly, is David Bentley Hart’s deal? What is his vast and diverse corpus fundamentally driving at? By Phil Christman October 10, 2022 Books Theology Fiction
Article Making Room for Happenstance David Graeber and David Wengrow explore how our ideas about prehistory are rooted more in modern speculation than in the ancient evidence. By Phil Christman November 19, 2021 Books History Culture
Article Seen and Not Seen Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, ‘Peaces,’ is a work of imaginative exuberance, at once absurd and moving. By Phil Christman July 25, 2021 Fiction Literature
