What Should We Remember About the 1960s?
Charles J. Holden reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”
Charles J. Holden reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”
Paul Vangelisti reviews Neeli Cherkovski’s “Selected Poems: 1959–2022.”
A new Palestinian movie night teaches Tosten Burks about failure.
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
In his review of “Poor Charlie's Almanack,” Dave Mandl delights in Charles T. Munger’s skewering of contemporary investing and business practices.
Gideon Leek reviews the reissue of Caroline Blackwood’s 1976 novel “The Stepdaughter.”
Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
Upon the release of Childish Gambino’s final studio album, Cherith King revisits an exploration of his contribution to the “new black Gothic.”
Michael Eby reviews “Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality” by Benjamin Shestakofsky.
Sunny S. Yudkoff reviews “Gretel and the Great War," Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s new abecedarian WWI novel.
Safa Khatib considers theories of Judaism, antisemitism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism in her review of “Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism” by Jonathan Judaken.
Mikaela Dery reviews Sable Yong’s “Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity.”
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
Minsoo Kang examines the persistence of Korean nationalism in the South Korean horror thriller “Exhuma,” directed by Jang Jae-hyun.
Ready, boils and ghouls, for a jolting tale of tension in the EC tradition? Read the Britt-Keeper’s account of a spooky little soirée at Revenge Of in Glassell Park … if you dare!
In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman consider the role of pessimism in our approach to contemporary politics.