Naked Lunch Redux
William Burroughs’s seminal classic, “Naked Lunch,” is published in a 50th anniversary edition.
Robert Birnbaum
The Ghost in The Squirrel Machine
A new opus from the obscurantist Hans Rickheit.
The Original Trotskyite 2.0
One of two new biographies of the influential Soviet revolutionary, Leon Trotsky.
A Polish Joke
Is Witold Gombrowicz one of the greatest novelists of the century? You decide.
Crimes of the Utopian Left
French intellectual Jean François Revel derides Utopian Leftists.
Mad for Magazines
They don’t make ’em like they used to—in this case, periodical literature, you know, magazines.
Good Wood on U.S. History
America’s first quarter-century is well examined by premiere historian Gordon Wood.
On Bookshelves Now
Theaters are jammed with movies based on books—who knew?
Black Beauty
Deborah Willis’s extraordinary compendium shows the beauty of black culture.
Four Million Years
John Ross’s Mexico City comes alive in his new tome, “El Monstruo.”