• Forget it Jake, It's 2019

    By ZACHARY HERZ

    Review of Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha.

    November 20, 2019
  • Jonathan Swift, Political Animal

    By JOHN OWEN HAVARD

    Review of Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel, by John Stubbs 

    September 25, 2019
  • Politics and the English Editor

    By STEVEN LUBET

    Review of Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters, by Harold Evans

    June 12, 2017
  • The Globalization of Literature

    By SEAN NAM

    Review of The Global Novel, by Adam Kirsch

    June 05, 2017
  • The Humane Society

    By JOHN OWEN HAVARD

    Review of The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice, by Tobias Menely

    May 15, 2017
  • The Rooms Where It Happened

    By ALISON L. LACROIX

    Review of Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York City) and Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

    May 23, 2016
  • The Hardship of Henry James

    By JEFF NUNOKAWA

    Review of Henry James: Autobiographies, edited by Philip Horne

    May 18, 2016
  • The Singularity is Near

    By DANIEL GREEN

    Review of The Work of Literature, by Derek Attridge

    May 16, 2016
  • A Mob for All Seasons

    By DYLAN J. MONTANARI

    Review of The Mafia: A Cultural History, by Roberto Maria Dainotto

    May 11, 2016
  • Running Out of Thought

    By KENNETH POSNER

    Review of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami

    January 27, 2016
  • Literary Financial Literacy

    By WILLIAM A. BIRDTHISTLE

    Review of I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone And No One Can Pay; Capital: A Novel; and How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say -- and What It Really Means, by John Lanchester

    January 06, 2016
  • Pynchon’s Pop Fiction

    By ERIC SANDBERG

    Review of Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon

    November 02, 2015
  • Past Perfect

    By RICHARD H. MCADAMS

    Review of Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee

    August 24, 2015
    "Past Perfect," by Richard H. McAdams, review of Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
  • Ishiguro's Middle Ages

    By MICHELLE KARNES

    Review of THE BURIED GIANT, by Kazuo Ishiguro

    June 10, 2015
    The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro, reviewed by Michelle Karnes for The New Rambler Review of Books.
  • Generous Minds

    By TYLER COWEN

    Review of THE RAMBLER: Volume 1, Diaries, Prayers, and Annals, by Samuel Johnson

    April 27, 2015
    Tyler Cowen review of THE RAMBLER: Volume 1, Diaries, Prayers, and Annals, by Samuel Johnson
  • How Star Wars Illuminates Constitutional Law (and Authorship)

    By CASS R. SUNSTEIN

    Review of HOW STAR WARS CONQUERED THE UNIVERSE: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise, by Chris Taylor

    April 20, 2015
    Cass Sunstein reviews Chris Taylor