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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.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
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.”
Meeting Labor’s Moment: On Hamilton Nolan’s “The Hammer”
Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor.”
Authoritarian Media: On Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.”
Toward a Genealogy of Fossil Capitalism: On Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
The “Nacirema” Dream: The Story of an Asian American Studio
Jonathan van Harmelen reveals a lesser-known, unappreciated history of American film through the work of Asian American makers and studios.
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