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Desert Plantations
Tom Prezelski considers “West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire,” the new book by Kevin Waite.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
We Are the Fiumians
Aliza Wong reads “The Fiume Crisis” by Dominique Kirchner Reill and sees parallels to our current political crisis.
Fugitive Pedagogy: The Longer Roots of Antiracist Teaching
Jarvis R. Givens outlines the history of Black educators and what today's antiracist teachers can learn from them.
The Bookseller as Humanist: A Conversation with Ross King
Nick Owchar talks with Ross King on his book about the Italian bookseller who spurred the Renaissance.
After the Expulsion: An Excerpt from “Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction”
Ilan Stavans explores Sephardic literature in this excerpt from “Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction.”
Night with a Nihilist: On Faith Hillis’s “Utopia’s Discontents”
Ania Aizman is engrossed by “Utopia’s Discontents,” Faith Hillis’s history of 19th-century revolutionaries and Jewish radicals.
California’s Vigilante Tradition
The far-right protestors in Huntington Beach aren’t as novel as they seem.
The Life — and Lives — of the Party: Communism in China, 1921–2021
Martin Laflamme evaluates “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives” and “From Rebel to Ruler.”
The Land of Dreamers
How a multiethnic neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles signifies democracy.
Mistresses of Subterfuge: On Judy Batalion’s “The Light of Days”
Puloma Mukherjee reviews Judy Batalion’s “The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos.”
“For Freedom, for Fairness”: A Conversation with Judy Batalion
Shani R. Friedman talks to Judy Batalion about the forgotten heroines of the Holocaust.
Archival Futures: The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive
Rethinking the research archive in an age of pandemics and digitization.
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