Culinary Class Wars Revolutionizes the Cooking Show
Culinary Class Wars effectively revamps the cooking-competition genre while addressing social hierarchy, but ultimately prioritizes individual achievement over serious social commentary.
Column: Too many emails? Tame your inbox by thinking like a monkey
Email interactions reflect social hierarchy dynamics, influencing responses and status perceptions after breaks like vacations.
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review an epic novel of life and death in 1950s Trinidad
In a novel by Ingrid Persaud, four female characters recount the story of notorious gangster Boysie Singh in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s and 50s.
Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman review acid comedy of precarity
Anxiety has shifted to defeatism in contemporary American novels.
Novels of manners thrive on rigid social hierarchies.