Alta Monday Book Review
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Out of the Archives
In her sophomore novel, Beings, Ilana Masad weaves three compelling narratives about trust and belief.
THE MONDAY BOOK REVIEW
Conspiracy Theory
In Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon comes full circle—and then some.
The Price of Loyalty
McNamara at War, a new biography of Robert McNamara, reexamines his culpability in Vietnam.
Life Writing
In A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories, Jonathan Lethem takes us back and forth in time.
Poetics of Fighting
Jeff Chang’s new biography, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, explores the internal and external conflicts of the influential martial artist.
The Adult in the Room
Michelle Huneven’s Bug Hollow examines the mounting complexities of contemporary family life.
Institutional Denial of Civil Rights
Brando Simeo Starkey’s Their Accomplices Wore Robes provides a devastating critique and analysis of the Supreme Court’s role in preserving a racial caste system.
Beyond the Usual Suspects
Dennis McNally’s The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties considers not only the major bohemian and hippie artists but also those outside the mainstream.
Down These Mean Streets
Owen Hill’s The Giveaway collects the complete Clay Blackburn tetralogy…at last.
Young Man Down
Sameer Pandya’s novel Our Beautiful Boys considers masculinity, class, race, and parenting as they impact an act of violence perpetrated by teenage athletes in Southern California and its aftermath.
The Memory Palace
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson’s debut novel, The Ephemera Collector, is an ambitious work of Afrofuturism.
19th-Century Nightmare
Stephen Graham Jones’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter skillfully blends literary, historical, and genre influences.
Lyrical Truth-Teller
Musician Neko Case’s memoir reveals that her songs have emerged from a difficult, complicated past.
Encroaching on Dreams
Power of Friendship
Punk-Rock Art in the ‘Death Rattle of Capitalism’
