Another 5001 Nights at the Movies
What to read this month
Book Review
What’s Left?
A new book by the West’s most influential Marxist shows him to be both “the most profound essayist wielding a pen” and on the wrong side of history
Home Alone
The dark heart of shelter-lit addiction
New fiction
Finds and flops
Downhill All the Way
An adroit new history of the British Empire in the post-Victorian era
New Fiction
Finds and flops
Are You There God? It's Me, Monica
How nice girls got so casual about oral sex
The Not-So-Second City
What to read this month—and what not to
Sit and Spin
How slot machines give gamblers the business
New Fiction
Finds and flops