Baseworld
"Base Nation" remains a distressing and tremendously helpful resource for grappling with the global geography of the American armed forces.
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The Language of Torture
Ingrid Betancourt has enough powerful descriptions of torture in "The Blue Line" to scare a reader straight.
Polling the Soul
How has polling changed not only how we think about religion but how religious people themselves conceive of who they are and what they do?
Dispatch from the Glamorous Class
In "A Photographic Memory: 1968-1989," Schlesinger visually traces his path along the epicenters of culture.
Automating the Professions: Utopian Pipe Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?
"The Future of the Professions" argues that standardization of legal filings, briefs, and judgments is the way of the future.
Earnest Underbelly
I genuinely enjoyed "Miss Fortune." I found myself not merely smiling, but cackling — and, in turn, tearing up or sighing with sad recognition.
The Sharp Edge That Finds Us: Edward Mendelson’s “Moral Agents” and the Question “What Is Man?”
What is man that though art mindful of him?
So Hot Right Now: Cli-Fi Comes to YA
A review of two Young Adult "climate fiction" novels by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Reading for Delany
The beauty of "Stories for Chip" is the way in which work that celebrates Delany generates new sentences full of possibility and danger.
A Magician for Musicians
Passman's book "All You Need to Know About the Music Business" is read not only by musicians but also by executives and lawyers, educating a generation.
Rediscovering an Overlooked Woman Novelist
Constance Fenimore Woolson is an oft-forgotten Victorian novelist who deserves to be known in her own right.
Two Decades of Hip
Too glib an analysis of a complex time.
Irritated — A Historical Overview of Allergies
Are allergies getting worse?
Feminist Utopia, 17th-Century Style
Danielle Dutton inhabits the life of Margaret Cavendish, the first woman to visit Britain’s Royal Society.
The Art of Genre
"Falling in Love with Hominids" by Nalo Hopkinson offers new work and recent career highlights that delight and disturb.
Burdens and Privileges
For this essayist, Joe Donnelly, Alan Rifkin's "Burdens By Water" brings back the glory days of 1990s long-form journalism on the subject of Los Angeles.
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