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Hunger-Time
Alma Igra illustrates how, through the scrupulous caloric management of Gaza, Israel and the international community have weaponized food.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
What Is the Point of Such Inhumane Programs? On Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska’s “Microhistories of Memory”
Harry Waksberg reviews a new book about a German television series about the Holocaust, written by Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska.
The Trouble with the French Republic: On Two Recent Books About French Colonization
Charles Emmerson reviews two recent books on France’s colonial legacy, Nabila Ramdani’s “Fixing France” and Pierre Singaravélou’s “Colonisations.”
Intended to Be Cruel: On Ana Raquel Minian’s “In the Shadow of Liberty”
Sara Campos reviews “In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States” by Stanford professor Ana Raquel Minian.
California Communism and Its Afterlives: On Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds”
Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics review Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919–1958.”
Out of the Mouth of Bots: Child Genius and Generative Machines
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Emily Wells and Aaron Bornstein scrutinize a pair of child geniuses.
I Would Like to Know Her: On Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers”
Leigh-Michil George reviews Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.”
The Ongoing Present: On Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro’s “Against Erasure”
Tal Frieden reviews “Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba” by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro.
The Narcotic Allure of Dictatorship: On Jacob Heilbrunn’s “America Last”
Matt Hanson reviews Jacob Heilbrunn’s “America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.”
A More Camouflaged Colony: On Margaret M. Power’s “Solidarity Across the Americas”
Emiliano Aguilar reviews Margaret M. Power’s “Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism."
All of This, My Dear Sir, Is Surrealism: On Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters”
Anna Levett reviews Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters.”
Rooting in the Dirt: On Robert Aquinas McNally’s “Cast Out of Eden”
Andrew Graybill reviews Robert Aquinas McNally’s “Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness.”
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