Our favorite criticism of the week includes Philippa Snow on MJ Corey’s Dekonstructing the Kardashians , Hamilton Cain on Douglas Stuart’s John of John , Becca Rothfeld on Nelio Biedermann’s Lázár , Sigrid Nunez on Jayne Anne Phillips’s Small Town Girls , and Jess Bergman on Andrew Martin’s Down Time . Brought to you by  Book Marks , Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * “To think about the Kardashians for too long in our current political and cultural moment—a time of fascism, genocide, and war—is to feel a little like Kim herself in a very famous scene from Keeping Up , fruitlessly searching for a lost diamond earring in the ocean as her sister Kourtney reminds her that ‘there’s people that are dying.’ And yet: it is impossible to say that the Kardashians lack impact … Post  Keeping Up , Kim Kardashian has become ubiquitous, as if she were a very hot dictator whose portrait hung in every home in America.…