The More Things Change
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham imagines the world exactly as it always was.
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It Happened Here
The recent TV adaptation of The Plot Against America rejects Philip Roth’s vision of American exceptionalism.
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No Time for Nostalgia
When We Were Arabs does little to expand the political possibilities for a younger, American Mizrahi milieu.
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Police State Procedural
The new season of Fauda takes the denigration of Palestinians to new depths.
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A Stranger in Silicon Valley
Anna Wiener’s memoir of her time in San Francisco tech subtly skewers the industry, but its elegantly disaffected style has its limits.
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Creeps of Late Capitalism
In Serotonin, Michel Houellebecq maps the degradations of neoliberal notions of “progress” and “free trade” directly onto sexual politics.
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Appraisal of Memory
In Patrick Modiano’s fictions of Vichy France, collaboration is not as it appears.
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American Blood Libel
In The Accusation, historian Edward Berenson tells the story of an age-old antisemitic canard’s sole appearance in the United States.
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Boundary Issues
Once a wickedly clever saga about a family of dissolute LA Jews, Transparent loved itself to death.
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