
Swan Song for a University: On Carolyn Dekker’s “North Country”
Rachel Feder discusses Carolyn Dekker’s new book “North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac” and the crisis in higher education....
EDUCATION
MEMOIR & ESSAY
Swan Song for a University: On Carolyn Dekker’s “North Country”
Rachel Feder discusses Carolyn Dekker’s new book “North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac” and the crisis in higher education....
EDUCATION
MEMOIR & ESSAY
Relevés and Revolutions: On Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B”
Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”...
ART & ARCHITECTURE
HISTORY
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Gone to Texas: On Sam W. Haynes’s “Unsettled Land”
Aaron Gwyn reviews Sam W. Haynes’s “Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas.”...
Uncomfortable Somethings: On Isabel Zapata’s “In Vitro”
Claire Calderón reviews Isabel Zapata’s “In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation.”...
Joanna Biggs's “A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again.”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by editor and writer Joanna Biggs, whose new book is called “A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again.”...
Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics....
Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics....
POLITICS
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
HISTORY
The Ironic Radical: On Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative”
Michael S. Roth ponders Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998–2007.”...
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
It’s (Not) Just Film Studies: On Returning to “Scream”
Kartik Nair explores the dynamics of the Scream franchise through the lens of 2023’s “Scream VI.”...
FILM
The General Crisis of Whiteness: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff
Natasha Lennard speaks with Nicholas Mirzoeff about his new book “White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness.”...
POLITICS
HISTORY
A Serious, Chronic, Complex, and Systemic Disease: On Jennifer Lunden’s “American Breakdown”
Tanya Ward Goodman reviews Jennifer Lunden’s “American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life.”...