The Crisis of Classical Studies: On Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome”
Edward Watts reviews Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.”
Edward Watts reviews Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.”
Fred Turner reviews Jane Kamensky’s “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below.”
Jaelani Turner-Williams interviews Ben Greenman, co-author of Sly Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).”
Sameer Pandya traces the path of E. M. Forster’s classic novel in his own passage to India.
Charlee Dyroff reviews Gina Chung’s “Green Frog.”
Duck and cover! The iconic launch reading for “The Big One” magazine brought down the house, reports Max Gordy.
Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Adam Phillips’s “On Giving Up.”
Greg Barnhisel reviews Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.”
Leah Abrams reviews Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry.”
Jason Thornberry reviews Sarah Tomlinson’s “The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers.”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Katherine Voyles reviews David McCloskey’s “Moscow X.”
Hannah Kofman reviews Helen Oyeyemi's “Parasol Against the Axe.”
A. J. Brown gets parasocial for the launch of Brittany Menjivar’s debut anthology at Stories in Echo Park.
Kate Wolf speaks with sociologist Gretchen Sisson about her first book, “Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American...