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Articles
Reviews
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Jon Wiener on Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner May 8th, 2012 “J. Edgar”
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William Giraldi on America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano May 21st, 2012 “Eden of Clowns”
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David J. Leonard on Showdown, Integrating the Gridiron and Benching Jim Crow by Thomas G. Smith, Lane Demas and Charles Martin May 24th, 2012 “Team Colors”
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Alan Hess on Architecture of the Sun, Sympathetic Seeing and Living in a Modern Way by Thomas S. Hines, Kimberli Meyer, Susan Morgan and Wendy Kaplan May 26th, 2012 “Schindler Goes Hollywood”
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Alan Hess on Living in a Modern Way, Architecture of the Sun and Sympathetic Seeing by Wendy Kaplan, Thomas S. Hines, Kimberli Meyer and Susan Morgan May 26th, 2012 “Schindler Goes Hollywood Part II”
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Emily Douglas on The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman June 8th, 2012 “Intellectual Property”
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Lauren Elkin on Beyond the Tower by John Marriott June 16th, 2012 “A Redemptive History of East London”
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Lindsay Reckson on Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey June 19th, 2012 “Crying in Public”
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John Cline on My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson July 1st, 2012 “Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line”
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Swati Pandey on Manhunt and The Hunt for KSM by Peter Bergen, Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer July 8th, 2012 “War By Manhunt: Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ”
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Robert Zaretsky on Albert Camus: Solitude & Solidarity by Catherine Camus July 18th, 2012 “A Man Apart”
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Sherryl Vint on Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America by John Cheng July 21st, 2012 “Pulp Science”
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John Raeburn on Artful Lives by Beth Gates Warren July 24th, 2012 “Lovers in the Lens”
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Angela Serratore on Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale July 29th, 2012 “Here’s to Mrs. Robinson”
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Gayle Brandeis on Desert Reckoning by Deanne Stillman August 19th, 2012 “Fear Not: On the Biggest Manhunt in California History”
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Ali Pechman on Red Rock by Jonathan Campbell August 20th, 2012 “Rock & Roll in China”
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Heather Love on All We Know by Lisa Cohen August 28th, 2012 “Social Work: On Three Half-forgotten Women”
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Houman Barekat on How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price August 31st, 2012 “Circulation Jerks: On the Book as Fetish Object”
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Houman Barekat on Golden Harvest by Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzinska Gross September 13th, 2012 “Their Silver Lining: Nazi Genocide and Eastern Europe”
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Anjuli Raza Kolb on The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin September 27th, 2012 “Forgive Us Our Skins: On Poliquin's 'Breathless Zoo'”
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Jonathan Yudelman on The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony September 28th, 2012 “Ending the War between Athens and Jerusalem”
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Katy Evans-Bush on London: A History in Verse by Mark Ford October 14th, 2012 ““Because London is Still a Kaleidoscope”: The City's History in Verse”
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Frederick Deknatel on Obama and the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges October 22nd, 2012 “Obama’s Foreign Policy Crossroads”
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John Shaw on The Irving Berlin Reader and Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater by Benjamin Sears and Jeffrey Magee October 28th, 2012 “Mr. Berlin Himself”
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David Weigel on Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe November 4th, 2012 “At War with GodCorp: On the History of Marvel Comics”
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Michael Kammen on I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics. Interviews with Jon Wiener by Jon Wiener November 6th, 2012 “Gore Vidal Redux”
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John Cline on Darkest America by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen November 16th, 2012 “The Wages of Blackface”
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Colin Dickey on The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe November 27th, 2012 “One Book Opens Another: On “The Secrets of Alchemy””
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Michael Kammen on Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left by Martin Duberman November 29th, 2012 “The Insubordinate Historian: The Life and Legacy of Howard Zinn”
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William Giraldi on Rotten Reviews Redux: A Literary Companion by Bill Henderson November 30th, 2012 “The Critic’s Credentials: On 'Rotten Reviews Redux'”
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Scott Korb on Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie December 5th, 2012 “Enough and More Than Enough: On Paul Elie’s “Reinventing Bach””
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Swati Pandey on Twentysomething by Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig December 13th, 2012 “Woman Something: On "Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?"”
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Eileen Reynolds on The First Four Notes by Matthew Guerrieri December 18th, 2012 “Sublime Nothingness: On 'The First Four Notes'”
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Hillary Kelly on Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb December 23rd, 2012 “Dickens’s Actual Children: On Robert Gottlieb's "Great Expectations"”
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Michael Kammen on A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg by Janice Van Horne December 30th, 2012 “Open Marriage Chez Clem: A Life with Clement Greenberg”
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Timothy Spangler on Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White January 6th, 2013 “Every Accountant Tells a Story”
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Jon Wiener on The Noir Forties by Richard Lingeman January 14th, 2013 “The Noir Key to the 1940s”
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Tom Dibblee on Bitter Brew by William Knoedelseder January 17th, 2013 “Bud Light Lime, Unlikely Hope”
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Joseph Martin on Punkademics by Zack Furness January 21st, 2013 “Ivory Minority: Punk in the University”
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Round About the Earth by Joyce E. Chaplin January 25th, 2013 “Around the World in Eighty Ways: On Circumnavigation”
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Ted Scheinman on The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne January 27th, 2013 “Fashioning Jane: How to Read Paula Byrne’s New Biography”
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Anthony Paletta on Edward Durell Stone by Mary Anne Hunting January 30th, 2013 “The Most Hated of Architects: On Edward Durrell Stone”
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Madeleine Schwartz on One Marriage Under God and Not Just Roommates by Melanie Heath and Elizabeth H. Pleck January 31st, 2013 “For Better or Worse: Marriage Promotion, Cohabitation, and American Politics”
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Drew Calvert on From The Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra February 25th, 2013 “Through the Inverted Telescope: On Pankaj Mishra's "From the Ruins of Empire"”
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Louise Steinman on Vera Gran: The Accused by Agata Tuszynska February 27th, 2013 “Confronting the Accused: On Agata Tuszynska and Vera Gran”
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Michael Kammen on Thomas Nast, World's Fair Gardens and Well Met by Fiona Deans Halloran, Cathy Jean Maloney and Rachel Lee Rubin March 3rd, 2013 “The Branding of America in Public Art: New Books in a Triad of Genres”
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Stephen F. Rohde on Priests of Our Democracy by Marjorie Heins March 8th, 2013 “"A Pall is Cast Over the Classroom": Legislating Academic Freedom”
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Sheila K. Johnson on Yokohama Yankee by Leslie Helm March 13th, 2013 “Oh, To Be Japanese!”
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Ariana Kelly on Flickering Light by Christoph Ribbat March 14th, 2013 “Illuminated Manuscripts: On the History of Neon”
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Michael Kammen on Merit by Joseph F. Kett March 23rd, 2013 “Winning and Whining, or How to Get Your Just Deserts in America”
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Rachel Monroe on Restless Souls by Alisa Statman and Brie Tate March 31st, 2013 “The War on Murder: Sharon Tate and the Victims' Rights Movement”
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Lary Wallace on Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman April 5th, 2013 “Race for the Prize: On Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland”
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Jason Brown on Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley April 11th, 2013 “The Invisible Playground: Phone Phreaking and the Criminalization of Curiosity”
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Amy Gall on This Is Running for Your Life by Michelle Orange April 18th, 2013 “Going the Distance: Michelle Orange's "This is Running for Your Life"”
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Kelly Candaele on The Sixties by Todd Gitlin April 21st, 2013 “The Foam on a Sea of Rage: The Weather Underground, "The Company You Keep," and What to Read Instead ”
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Tom Gallagher on Trampling Out the Vintage by Frank Bardacke April 21st, 2013 “Waiting For Chavez: The Farm Workers Union and the Future of Labor Organizing”
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Colin Dickey on The Devil Within by Brian Levack May 3rd, 2013 “The Dispossessed: Brian Levack’s “The Devil Within””
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Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu on Going Clear, The Church of Scientology and Beyond Belief by Lawrence Wright, Hugh Urban and Jenna Miscavige Hill May 12th, 2013 “Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich”
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Jon Wiener on FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman May 12th, 2013 “FDR: Good for the Jews?”
Essays
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Werner Herzog Hypnotizes Chickens by Paul Cullum August 28th, 2012 -
The Paradox of Pluck: How Did Historical Fiction Become the New Feminist History? by Lois Leveen September 30th, 2012 -
Film History: Columnists and Historians Assess Spielberg’s "Lincoln" by Kelly Candaele December 14th, 2012 -
The State of the Union of Jane Austen, Fact and Fiction by Devoney Looser January 27th, 2013 -
The Air We Make Together: The Life and Poetry of Jake Adam York by Jon Tribble April 7th, 2013
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