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The Lazarus Project
The genre inaugurated by Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel Everything Is Illuminated has finally found its standard bearer. Like Everything before it, Aleksander Hemon's The Lazarus Project compris...
The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
Honor Moore's memoir recounts her experience as the daughter of an esteemed Episcopal priest. Her desire to understand her father — a complicated, aloof man — before his death motivated an explorat...
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
For over a hundred years, Chinese food has transcended religion, race, and picky eaters in American culture. More than a mere cuisine, it has become a cultural phenomenon — it's a Christmas Eve tra...
Lush Life
Though it's almost impossible to find a New York City neighborhood that hasn't become a proverbial melting pot of disparate social, economic, and cultural groups, Manhattan's Lower East Side is a p...
Stoner
The first thing we ask when a book is recommended to us is, "What's it about?" In many ways, a novel is no different than a pop song: one with a good hook that's immediately compelling and easily d...
After the Deluge
After the Deluge chronicles the same-titled exhibition Kara Walker organized at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring and summer of 2006. With the horror of Hurricane Katrina as its impetus,...
Book Review
Controversial painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and photographer Piotr Uklański — who was recently dubbed a "Kielbasa cowboy" for writing and directing a Polish western — has been making waves in the a...