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Best of July
The Best of July on the Los Angeles Review of Books
Aug 1, 2017
The Monthly Digest: August 2017
Aug 1, 2017
August Horoscopes
The Voluptuous Witch brings us her August horoscopes.
The Voluptuous WitchAug 1, 2017
Mass-Produced Identity
Sean Carswell reviews Tomoyuki Hoshino’s novel “ME.”
Sean CarswellJul 31, 2017
- Around the World
- Noir
Between IS and God: What Must Be Understood
A top scholar of the Islamic State gets inside the story of the movement.
Rayyan Al-ShawafJul 31, 2017
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "The Queen's Justice"
Dear Television discusses what happens when the Game of Thrones is only played by veterans and no rookies.
Aaron Bady, Sarah MesleJul 31, 2017
- Dear Television
The Fallacy of “The Turning Point” — A Critical Look at Mark Bowden’s History of the Battle of Huế
An otherwise admirable history of a single battle is hampered by a simplified thesis and excessive credit given to the “turning point theory” of history.
Gregory A. DaddisJul 31, 2017
- History
- Politics
At Santa Maddalena
At Santa Maddalena
Kaya GençJul 31, 2017
The Internet Wars Come to Print
A new book on the internet memes and curious logic of modern agitprop conservatism.
Peter BerardJul 30, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
“I Write on Human Skin”: Catherine the Great and the Rule of Law
Robert Zaretsky reflects on 250th anniversary of Catherine the Great’s Legislative Commission to propose a new code of law for the Russian Empire.
Robert ZaretskyJul 30, 2017
- History
Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Industry
Did the professional managerial class give us the alt-right? Catherine Liu on Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies."
Catherine LiuJul 30, 2017
Not with a Bang, but a Retweet: The Rise of the Alt-Right
Jacqui Shine reviews one of the first histories of the alt-right.
Jacqui ShineJul 30, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Orphan Black Season Five, "Guillotines Decide": The Community is the Smallest Unit
Orphan Black Season Five, "Guillotines Decide": The Community is the Smallest Unit
Jul 30, 2017
Marketing Modernism
Loren Glass surveys the many strengths of Lise Jaillant's "Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde."
Loren GlassJul 29, 2017
Deprovincializing Philosophy
Peter Adamson’s “Philosophy in the Islamic World” marks a revolution: it redraws the map of the history of philosophy in a fundamental way.
Carlos FraenkelJul 29, 2017
Elena Ferrante: The Mad Adventures of Serious Ladies
GD Dess considers the complex female identities at the heart of the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante.
GD DessJul 29, 2017
- Around the World
- Fiction