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Hinterlands

By Matthew Byrne

The Secret Spies Keeping Baghdad Safe

By Lindsey Hilsum

Charting the Land of Great Loneliness

By Carin Clevidence

Estranged Modernisms

By Spencer Lee-Lenfield

Rob Spillman

Rob Spillman is the editor of Tin House.
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Readpolitik Review Lit World

Valeria Luiselli’s Rapturous New Novel

By Rob Spillman February 8, 2019
The Lost Children Archive swims in the same historical currents as the great stories of journey and discovery that came before.
Readpolitik Review HistoryLit World

The Character of Berlin

By Rob Spillman November 20, 2018
A sprawling chronicle of the Nazis' rise to power, decades in the making, sheds light on both the present and the past.
Photograph by Lucy Raven
Readpolitik Review JusticeLit World

Life on Mars

By Rob Spillman August 9, 2018
Rachel Kushner's new novel, The Mars Room, is a study in empathy.
Readpolitik Review AfricaLit World

Too God, Too Human

By Rob Spillman May 17, 2018
Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel is a powerful exploration of the liminal.
Readpolitik Review Arts & Culture

No Anne Frank

By Rob Spillman July 3, 2015

Jim Shepard elevates the ordinary and makes a necessary addition to the literature of the Holocaust.

Readpolitik Review Lit WorldRace

Satire and Macro-Aggressions

By Rob Spillman March 31, 2015

Paul Beatty’s The Sellout skewers the idea of “post-racial” society.

Readpolitik Review Arts & CultureLit World

On “Miranda July”

By Rob Spillman February 26, 2015

When whimsy becomes a weapon.

Readpolitik Review Lit WorldRace

Yes, It’s about Racism

By Rob Spillman November 10, 2014

On Claudia Rankine’s polemical poetry.

Commentary ConflictUSA

Jury Duty

By Rob Spillman July 25, 2012

A month on a Grand Jury reveals what happens when guns are cheap and easy to come by.

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