History

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

There Isn’t Going to Be Any Trouble
Jane Hayward reads two recent books on China’s post-Mao reform period.
Jane HaywardJun 30
- History
- Politics
Cracked, Costly Fantasies
Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
Dan O’SullivanJun 28
- Politics
- History
Things Still to Be Salvaged
Laurie Winer assesses Damion Searls’s new translation of “The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation” by Charlotte Beradt.
Laurie WinerJun 26
- History
Never a Patient Woman
Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone's ostensibly airless spaces in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Emmeline CleinJun 24
Movement Injuries
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
Christopher T. FanJun 24
- Fiction
- History
A Map to Black Paris
Doyle D. Calhoun visits “Black Paris: Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000” at the Centre Pompidou.
Doyle D. CalhounJun 8
- Art & Architecture
- History
Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk
L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
L. Benjamin RolskyJun 8
- Politics
- History
Two Maoisms
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
Guobin YangJun 7
- History
- Cultural Studies
Every Word Is to Be Construed in Favor of Liberty
Joshua D. Rothman reviews Zaakir Tameez’s biography “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.”
Joshua D. RothmanJun 3
- Biography & Autobiography
- History
The First Rough Draft of the United States’ Homegrown Nazis
Michael Bobelian considers the renewed relevance of “Under Cover,” Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld.
Michael BobelianJun 3
- History
- Politics
Grassroots and Guerrillas
Kelly Hammond reviews Stephen R. Platt’s “The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II” alongside other new work about East Asia in World War II.
Kelly HammondMay 30
- History
Did the Pandemic Ever End?
Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, “The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.”
Kiese LaymonMay 28
- Memoir & Essay
- History