Not Only in America: On Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory”
Spencer J. Weinreich reviews Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.”
Spencer J. Weinreich reviews Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.”
Spencer J. WeinreichOct 28, 2023
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Meghan Racklin considers the life and imperfectly rendered image of Empress Elisabeth of...
Meghan RacklinOct 20, 2023
Nicolle Alzamora reviews Joan Flores-Villalobos’s “The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal.”
Nicolle AlzamoraOct 19, 2023
Deborah Coen pushes back against one part of Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate” by arguing that what constitutes...
Deborah R. CoenOct 17, 2023
Noah Sparkes writes about Valdimir Arsenyev’s “Dersu Uzala” trilogy.
Noah SparkesOct 15, 2023
Chandler Dandridge takes a tour of Manchester with Andy Spinoza, author of “Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property, and Power in the Original Modern City.”
Chandler DandridgeOct 10, 2023
Dinyar Patel reviews Philip J. Stern’s “Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism.”
Dinyar PatelOct 7, 2023
Tyler McBrien reviews Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.”
Tyler McBrienOct 3, 2023
Does nostalgia for the old East Berlin come from a deeper longing for socialism?
Matthew LongoOct 1, 2023
Andrew Koppelman reviews Stephen Vladeck’s “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”
Andrew KoppelmanSep 27, 2023
Weiling Deng considers Zai Liang’s “From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States.”
Weiling DengSep 23, 2023
Émile P. Torres describes how it was not the dropping of the atom bombs in 1945 but the testing of a nuclear bomb is the Marshall Islands in 1954...
Émile P. TorresSep 20, 2023
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh reviews Alexander Statman’s “A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science” and Ali Humayun Akhtar’s “1368...
Gianamar Giovannetti-SinghSep 17, 2023
Krzysztof Pelc mostly agrees with Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy” but quibbles...
Krzysztof PelcSep 13, 2023
Mark Eaton reviews “Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today,” edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski.
Mark EatonSep 10, 2023
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The...
Dave MandlSep 9, 2023
Elaine Elinson reviews George Black’s “The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam.”
Elaine ElinsonSep 9, 2023
Historian Daniela Blei beautifully captures the essence of Uwe Wittstock’s newly translated “February 1933: The Winter of Literature.”
Daniela BleiSep 6, 2023
Ed Simon reviews Jonathan Healey’s “The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603–1689.”
Ed SimonAug 31, 2023
Alex Wellerstein assesses the depiction of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film.
Alex WellersteinAug 30, 2023
Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”
Yelena FurmanAug 29, 2023
Musicologist Judith Finell reviews Harvey Sachs’s new biography of the influential and misunderstood 20th-century musical genius Arnold Schoenberg...
Judith FinellAug 29, 2023
Craig Childs reviews Tom Zoellner’s “Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona.”
Craig ChildsAug 27, 2023
Jerald Podair, Zach Messitte, and Charles J. Holden reconsider the legacy of Spiro Agnew.
Zach Messitte, Charles J. Holden, Jerald PodairAug 27, 2023