Review: Kash Patel’s Government Gangsters
For years, Kash Pramod Patel has fantasized about remaking the F.B.I. “in his own image.” At least that’s what The New York Times’s Adam Gol
Book Review: David Mamet's Everywhere an Oink Oink
Known for pioneering a clipped and circular style of tense workplace conversations in plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow, Dav
Book Review: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s The Book of Elsewhere
Though John Wick may have returned Keanu Reeves to the A-list, he has always done what he wants on his own terms, stretching his acting abil
Book Review: The War on Warriors by Pete Hegseth
A month ago, Americans who aren’t dedicated Fox Nation subscribers had likely never heard of Middle Tennessee resident Pete Hegseth. But, on
Review: American Refugees
Roger Simon is one of those California transplants to Tennessee we’ve heard so much about. The mystery novelist and former columnist for The
Review: Michiko Kakutani’s The Great Wave
As the chief critic for The New York Times Book Review from 1983-2017, Michiko Kakutani anointed a host of 20th century literary titans like
Book Review: Choctaw Confederates
On the bizarre relationship between Natives and the Confederacy
The Rise of The Counterfeit Faculty
A Review of Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities
Review: Shepherds For Sale
Megan Basham’s new book on the politicization of the church sparks an Evangelical Civil War
Review: West from the Fallen Wall
West from the Fallen Wall, Short Stories from the Pax Americana in Europe, is an impressive debut. Author Ryan Henderson’s unembellished yet
Book Review: Adult Drama
What does art that passes an amorphous purity test look like? It’s the question that has remained woefully uninterrogated in the wake of #Me
Post-Pandemic Literature and the Promise of America’s Future
Michael Cunningham and Sloane Crosley prove the book may be the only way forward from our COVID malaise.
Defender of the Faith
A Review of Dave Verhaagen’s How White Evangelicals Think: The Psychology of White Conservative Christians
The Poetry of Craftsmen
A Review of Tom C. Hunley’s The Loneliest Whale in the World'
The Anti-Nostalgia of Bret Easton Ellis
A review of 'The Shards'