NR PLUS Magazine Chief Among Sinners: Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads Kicks Off a Trilogy By Stefan Beck December 2, 2021 A review of Crossroads: A Novel, by Jonathan Franzen.
NR PLUS Magazine How to Think about Existential Threats By Stefan Beck September 3, 2020 A review of The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays, by Elisa Gabbert.
NR PLUS Magazine Apartment: A Novel of Class-Based Anxieties By Stefan Beck March 19, 2020 A review of Apartment, by Teddy Wayne.
NR PLUS Magazine The Midwest’s Not-So-Hidden History By Stefan Beck May 16, 2019 A review of The Heartland: An American History, by Kristin L. Hoganson.
NR PLUS Magazine ‘How to Disappear’: Seeking Invisibility in an Age of Exhibitionism By Stefan Beck March 21, 2019 A review of How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency, by Akiko Busch.
NR PLUS Magazine Bad Banditti, Bad Book By Stefan Beck November 15, 2018 Stefan Beck reviews The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit, by John Rollin Ridge.
NR PLUS Magazine No Trouble at All By Stefan Beck July 26, 2018 Stefan Beck reviews Good Trouble, by Joseph O’Neill
NR PLUS Magazine Ghost Writing By Stefan Beck May 10, 2018 Stefan Beck reviews First Person, by Richard Flanagan.
NR PLUS Magazine Sterile Cleverness By Stefan Beck October 30, 2017 A review of The Golden House, by Salman Rushdie.
Politics & Policy “God Fearing” Dartmouth By Stefan Beck September 27, 2005 It’s become a truism that student government is the bailiwick of shallow, egotistical resume-padders. Tracy Flick, the junior-varsity Lady Macbeth of the 1999 movie Election, was instantly recognizable, as was ...