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Fury Born from Helplessness: On Leopoldo Gout’s “Piñata”
Matthew James Seidel reviews Leopoldo Gout’s “Piñata.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Dubiously Acquired Objects: On Götz Aly’s “The Magnificent Boat”
Erin Thompson reviews Götz Aly's “The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure.”
Is Multiculturalism an Oxymoron? On Martin Puchner’s “Culture”
Robert N. Watson considers the promises and perils of cultural amalgamation in his review of Martin Puchner’s “Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-pop.”
Sugar, Slavery, and Capitalism: On Ulbe Bosma’s “The World of Sugar”
Dinyar Patel reviews Ulbe Bosma’s “The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years.”
A Historian Forgotten: On Andrew Diemer’s “Vigilance”
Bennett Parten reviews Andrew Diemer’s “Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad.”
The Best of All Possible Wars: Warfare, Worldmaking, and the Creative Imagination
Anders Engberg-Pedersen asks what happens when the military imagines war as an art.
Window to the Mind: On Brinsley Samaroo and Eric Williams’s “The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man”
Devin Leigh evaluates the final work of Caribbean historian Eric Williams, “The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man: The Last Testament of Eric Williams.”
The Author Machine
Matthew Blackwell excavates the analog roots of the digital humanities.
A Crowd of Incompetents: On Peter Burke’s “Ignorance”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Burke’s “Ignorance: A Global History.”
Reports from a Cold Crater: On Charlotte A. Lerg’s “The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky”
Tobias Boes reviews Charlotte A. Lerg’s “The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II.”
Staying the Course: On Reed Brody’s “To Catch a Dictator”
Doug Merlino reviews “To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré” by Reed Brody.
Play Me Some Mountain Music: On Emily Hilliard’s “Making Our Future”
Tom Zoellner reviews Emily Hilliard’s “Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia.”
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