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Three Reviews: Emily Parker's "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground"

By Anita Casavantes Bradford, Benjamin Nathans, Jason Q. NgApril 18, 2014

Now I Know Who My Comrades Are by Emily D. Parker. Sarah Crichton Books. 320 pages.

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IN A NEW experiment in comparative reviewing, editors Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Megan Shank arranged for three reviews of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground by Emily Parker. Parker is a digital diplomacy advisor and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, New Republic, Far Eastern Economic Review, Project Syndicate, and World Affairs. Her book examines the use of the internet in Cuba, China, and Russia, and we contacted experts in the culture and politics of each of those three countries for reviews, asking them to focus on Parker's account of the country they each know best.


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"Online and Offline in Cuba," by Anita Casavantes Bradford


"Oh What Voices," by Jason Q. Ng


"Like It or Not, They Too Are Fellow Netizens," by Benjamin Nathans


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LARB Contributors

Anita Casavantes Bradford is assistant professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her first book, The Revolution is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962, is now available from the University of North Carolina Press.

Benjamin Nathans is the author and editor of five books, including Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (2002), which was awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, and the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, modern European Jewish history, and the history of human rights.

Jason Q. Ng is a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s The Citizen Lab and author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China’s Version of Twitter (And Why). His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal’s “China Real Time” blog, The Atlantic, ChinaFile, and Foreign Affairs.

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