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The City in Its Grip: On Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write”
T. M. Brown reviews Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Through a Grid, Darkly: On Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx”
Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”
So You Believe in Intergenerational Trauma? A Conversation with Katya Apekina
Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Katya Apekina about her second novel, “Mother Doll.”
The Lord of Auschwitz Asks to See a Priest: On James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution”
Jack Miles reviews James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor” in light of the new film “The Zone of Interest.”
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Opium Smuggler: On Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes”
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
A Host of Demands: On Katie Rogers’s “American Woman”
Lindsay Chervinsky reviews Katie Rogers’s “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.”
The Place You Now Live: On Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins”
Stephanie Elizondo Griest reviews Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
Timothy Leary Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: On Benjamin Breen’s “Tripping on Utopia”
Timothy Leary sucked the revolutionary potential out of psychedelic science, concludes Kim Adams after reading Benjamin Breen’s “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science.”
Prove You’re Not a Robot: On Karel Čapek’s “R.U.R.”
Jonathan Bolton uses the occasion of a new edition and translation of Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.,” first published in Prague in 1920, to revisit the origins of the word “robot,” and explore the play’s uncannily prescient vision of artificial life.
Dubious Dam: A Conversation with Erika Marie Bsumek
Tom Zoellner talks to Erika Marie Bsumek about one of the worst boondoggles in the Southwest, which she explores in her recent book “The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau.”
Ambivalent Fanonism: On Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic”
Anthony Alessandrini reviews Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.”
Blazing Old Worlds: On Francesca Peacock’s “Pure Wit”
Thomas Elrod reviews Francesca Peacock’s “Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish.”
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