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Sequence: Excerpt from “A Map of Future Ruins” by Lauren Markham
LARB presents an excerpt of Lauren Markham’s new book “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Haiti Reimagined: On Marlene L. Daut’s “Awakening the Ashes” and Jake Johnston’s “Aid State”
Laurent Dubois reviews two new books on Haiti’s past and present: Marlene L. Daut’s “Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History” and Jake Johnston’s “Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti.”
What’s Next for Histories of Climate Change
Deborah Coen shows how historians miss a great deal when they rely on the quantitative tools of scientists.
The Nameless and Forgotten Ones: On Wim Wenders’s “Anselm”
Yael Friedman speaks with Wim Wenders and provides a review of his work with sculptor Anselm Kiefer in the wake of Wenders’s new documentary, “Anselm.”
Ironic Detachment Will No Longer Do: On Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future”
Ian Ellison reviews Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War.”
A Story That We Only Think We Know: On Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear”
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.”
Roadside Attractions: On John Keahey’s “Following Caesar”
Mike Rodelli considers John Keahey’s “Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire.”
Inside My Dark Room
Julie Park reflects on the process of bringing out her book on the 18th-century camera obscura.
History as Dissent: On Ian Johnson’s “Sparks” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory”
Craig Calhoun reviews two books on history and memory in China: Ian Johnson’s “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution.”
Abortion on Trial: On Nicholas L. Syrett’s “The Trials of Madame Restell”
Edna Bonhomme reviews Nicholas L. Syrett’s “The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous ‘Female Physician’ and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime.”
The Hold of the Dead Over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
Trances, Ecstasies, Raptures, and Levitations: On Carlos Eire’s “They Flew”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Carlos Eire’s “They Flew: A History of the Impossible.”
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