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...
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Sara Campos reviews “In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States” by Stanford professor Ana Raquel...
Sara CamposJun 2
Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics review Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919–1958.”
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Emily Wells and Aaron Bornstein scrutinize a pair of child geniuses.
Aaron Bornstein, Emily WellsMay 26
Leigh-Michil George reviews Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.”
Leigh-Michil GeorgeMay 21
Tal Frieden reviews “Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba” by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro.
Tal FriedenMay 20
Matt Hanson reviews Jacob Heilbrunn’s “America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.”
Matt HansonMay 19
Emiliano Aguilar reviews Margaret M. Power’s “Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism."
Emiliano AguilarMay 15
Anna Levett reviews Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters.”
Anna LevettMay 14
Andrew Graybill reviews Robert Aquinas McNally’s “Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness.”
Andrew GraybillMay 12
Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor.”
Joseph A. McCartinMay 4
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.”
Peter B. KaufmanApr 30
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Ed SimonApr 26