Baumbach’s ambitious adaptation of a book by a difficult-to-adapt author comes up short.
Category Archive: fiction
Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
Adrián Félix recounts the faces and voices of a journey back home to Zacatecas, via the world’s worst airport.
To borrow from our millennial friends, it is very on brand for the Tropics of Meta crew—composed mainly of Gen X Nirvana-loving kids who eat hot Cheetos and drink cold beer—to drop new books in a global pandemic.
Frank Herbert’s novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film borrow from Middle Eastern cultures, but what does that really mean?
In this short story, a group of teens confronts environmental racism and the invidious question: “Why don’t you just move?”
Marcos Gonsalez’s debut novel provides an occasion for reflection and healing in traumatic times, now and past.
Robinson’s “baggy monster” of a novel offers a daring and kaleidoscopic view of how humanity might actually grapple with impending climate catastrophe.