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“A hulking, extravagant cruise ship barrels into Giglio, crashing into the granite shore. Dozens of passengers drown. For Teresa, this episode epitomizes a certain generation.” Julia Case-Levine on Lorenza Pieri’s “Lesser Islands.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/shipwr…

#RT Los Angeles Review of Books: “A hulking, extravagant cruise ship barrels into Giglio, crashing into the granite shore. Dozens of passengers drown. For Teresa, this episode epitomizes a certain generation.” Julia Case-Levine on Lorenza Pieri’s “Lesser Islands.” …

For Los Angeles Review of Books I wrote about Lorenza Pieri's Lesser Islands and monsters! lareviewofbooks.org/article/shipwr…

CRC alum Julia Case-Levine reviews Lorenza Pieri’s “Lesser Islands”. Read it in Los Angeles Review of Books! lareviewofbooks.org/article/shipwr…

For Lapham’s Quarterly I wrote about Lady Frieda Harris, wife of an MP and friend to Aleister Crowley, whose commitment to her art led to the creation of the Thoth Tarot the story involves a battle of egos and a heavily implied affair, though everyone involved is in their 60s

New on Roundtable: Read Julia Case-Levine on the daguerreotype romance. laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lov…

Julia Case-Levine “That one might encounter a stranger’s portrait and fall instantly in love was not the far-fetched plot of an outlandish romance. It was a familiar scenario, driven by the expectant fantasies and exalted fears that a new technology can sometimes inspire.” laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lov…

For Lapham’s Quarterly I wrote about a brief fixation in 19th century fiction—that we might fall in love with a stranger's photograph! laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lov…

"No wonder women were intrigued by the fantasy of daguerreotypes, a new technology seen at once as scientifically precise and imbued with a mystical ability to reveal truth, and to offer a privileged insight into a man’s character."

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Reviewed Sarah Viren's To Name The Bigger Lie for The Nation! thenation.com/article/cultur…

Lydia Millet’s first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All: A Memory Life, is a sweeping study of climate change, greed, human hubris, loss, and the possible end of life as we know it. bit.ly/3X5BuBy

Reviewed Lydia Millet’s excellent “anti-memoir” for The Nation ! thenation.com/article/cultur…

realclearbooks.com Friday reads: Kat Rosenfield for The Free Press, @distraughtemoji for The Baffler, Tyler Watamanuk for Dirt, Audrey Horne Online for Wisdom of Crowds, Julia Case-Levine for The Nation, John Ketcham for City Journal, and many others.

…Irene Katz Connelly in Los Angeles Review of Books on Jo Hamya’s novel “The Hypocrite”, Julia Case-Levine in The Nation on Lydia Millet’s “We Loved it All: A Memory of Life”, Roger Kimball on “What the Right Gets Wrong About Art”, Victoria Moul on Calvin and Virgil… (2/3)

"Witt doesn’t risk falling into substance abuse so much as into piety." Julia Case-Levine reviews Emily Witt’s new memoir, "Health and Safety: A Breakdown." lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-chem…