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Book reviews

Fiction

Estate stories

Published Summer 2018

Delury has a gift for devastating understatement and delicate moments in her debut novel, 'The Balcony' / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Book cover for 'Violence's fabled experiment'

Nonfiction

Violent nature

Published Summer 2018

This compact, heady book asks whether being human requires a capacity for violence that defines itself against nature / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Talking with J.D. Connor

Published Summer 2018

Hopkins alum dishes on the business of show business and why the stories Hollywood tells about itself matter / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Q+A

Talking with Chris Lebron

Published Winter 2017

Philosophy professor talks teaching philosophy via a social movement, radical art, and James Baldwin's idea of love / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Carry a torch

Published Fall 2017

Monica Hesse's new book, 'American Fire' chronicles a couple's 2014 arson spree across Virginia's Eastern Shore, exploring not so much who committed these crimes, but why / Johns Hopkins Magazine

When her dad has a heart attack, Alex, the put-upon daughter of a typically dysfunctional and affluent suburban New York City family, gets tasked with yet another thankless job / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Guarding Saddam

Published Fall 2017

Will Bardenwerper tells the stories of the young men whose service involved sharing Saddam Hussein's last few months as he waited to be put to death / Johns Hopkins Magazine