The Divine City: On J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras”
Charles McKinney reviews J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.”
Charles McKinney reviews J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.”
Charles W. McKinneyJun 15, 2023
Ellen Wayland-Smith is haunted by Audrey Clare Farley’s exposé, in “Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in...
Ellen Wayland-SmithJun 13, 2023
Tim Riley reviews Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska.’”
Tim RileyJun 9, 2023
Abe Silberstein reviews Godfrey Cheshire’s “In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema.”
Abe SilbersteinJun 8, 2023
Dan O’Brien reviews Robert Selby’s new poetry collection “The Kentish Rebellion.”
Dan O’BrienJun 7, 2023
Michael Ledger-Lomas reviews Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History.”
Michael Ledger-LomasJun 6, 2023
Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”
Martha Anne TollJun 4, 2023
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.
Massimo MazzottiJun 2, 2023
Natasha Lennard speaks with Nicholas Mirzoeff about his new book “White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness.”
Natasha LennardJun 1, 2023
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
Koritha MitchellMay 30, 2023
Matthew James Seidel reviews Leopoldo Gout’s “Piñata.”
Matthew James SeidelMay 27, 2023
Erin Thompson reviews Götz Aly's “The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure.”
Erin L. ThompsonMay 23, 2023
Robert N. Watson considers the promises and perils of cultural amalgamation in his review of Martin Puchner’s “Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave...
Robert N. WatsonMay 11, 2023
Dinyar Patel reviews Ulbe Bosma’s “The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years.”
Dinyar PatelMay 9, 2023
Bennett Parten reviews Andrew Diemer’s “Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad.”
Bennett PartenMay 7, 2023
Anders Engberg-Pedersen asks what happens when the military imagines war as an art.
Anders Engberg-PedersenMay 6, 2023
Devin Leigh evaluates the final work of Caribbean historian Eric Williams, “The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man: The Last Testament...
Devin LeighMay 1, 2023
Matthew Blackwell excavates the analog roots of the digital humanities.
Matthew BlackwellApr 29, 2023
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Burke’s “Ignorance: A Global History.”
Peter B. KaufmanApr 28, 2023
Tobias Boes reviews Charlotte A. Lerg’s “The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II.”
Tobias BoesApr 6, 2023
Doug Merlino reviews “To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré” by Reed Brody.
Doug MerlinoApr 2, 2023
Tom Zoellner reviews Emily Hilliard’s “Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia.”
Tom ZoellnerMar 20, 2023
Robert Slayton examines Adam Hochschild’s “American Midnight.”
Robert SlaytonMar 16, 2023
Nicole Bauer explores how the French Revolution made conspiracy theory central to modern political discourse.
Nicole BauerMar 9, 2023