Violence Repeated: On Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation”
Anabelle Johnston reviews Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation.”
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Anabelle Johnston reviews Don Mee Choi’s “Mirror Nation.”
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”
Robert P. Crease reviews Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.”
Shoshana Olidort reviews Mireille Gansel’s “Soul House.”
Brittany Menjivar reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
ISRAEL'S RECENT MILITARY ASSAULT on Gaza serves as a reminder of the continuing urgency of the Palestinian question, which has been a topic of...
Dashiel Carrera reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Manan Kapoor reviews “Songs of an Eastern Humanist” by Edward Said.
Catherine Chou discusses “Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat” by Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman.
Bob Blaisdell reviews Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.”
Edward Carver reviews Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.”
Naa Oyo A. Kwate lauds Uché Blackstock’s grounded memoir about racism in medicine and denounces Constance Hilliard’s genetic explanation for Black...
Sarah Brouillette reviews Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.”
Jayson Buford revisits Curtis Hanson and Eminem’s “8 Mile.”