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.
A new book on the internet memes and curious logic of modern agitprop conservatism.
Did the professional managerial class give us the alt-right? Catherine Liu on Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies."
Jacqui Shine reviews one of the first histories of the alt-right.
Loren Glass surveys the many strengths of Lise Jaillant's "Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde."
Peter Adamson’s “Philosophy in the Islamic World” marks a revolution: it redraws the map of the history of philosophy in a fundamental way.
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado reflects on Sergio Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," now out in full from Deep Vellum Publishing.
Clifford Thompson considers the strengths and shortcomings of Roxane Gay's "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body."
Kathleen B. Jones review “Rwandan Women Rising” and discusses it with its author, Swanee Hunt.
Howard J. Curzer considers the merits of Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh's "The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life."
John Tytell reviews Mary V. Dearborn’s new biography of Hemingway.
Austin Allyn reviews Alexander Vasudevan's new history of urban squatting.
Seth Greenland reviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's new memoir, "Coach Wooden and Me."
The most provocatively illiberal moments in Nietzsche should not end the argument. Barry Stocker reviews Hugo Drochon's "Nietzsche's Great Politics."
Our reviewer finds fault with a new book’s contention that executive power has led the United States to the brink of “elective dicatatorship.”
Remembering Jack Abbott, the convicted murderer who was Norman Mailer’s literary protégé.
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