Slaughterhouse Rules
A professor spends a season in hell.
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Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times A Swing and a Miss
Why the latest hyped-up work of staggering genius fizzles
Alex Nabaum Down Underworld
The brilliant foreignness of Australian crime fiction
Jesse Lenz The Moral Crusade Against Foodies
Gluttony dressed up as foodie-ism is still gluttony.
John Cuneo Men Who Love Too Much
Patrick Hamilton’s exceptional, and overlooked, novels show that falling in love with the wrong person is misery—and it isn’t much fun for the wrong person either.
Jesse Lenz Smaller Than Life
Jonathan Franzen’s juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can happen.
George Bates Monster of Marriage
Henry de Montherlant’s work displays the charms of a black-hearted misogynist.
Liza Corbett The Korea Trap
Bill Clinton may have secured the release of two American journalists, but as our correspondent, a South Korea-based professor of North Korean studies, reports, his trip to Pyongyang has troubling consequences too.
Mercy!
Toni Morrison’s new historical novel is a monotonous series of flashbacks, larded with anachronisms.
North Korea: Nothing Has Changed
"To hope that a new administration in Washington can build trust with the North Koreans where their most sympathetic blood-brethren have so abjectly failed would be to take American exceptionalism to a new extreme."
