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A Higher Thing than History
Zach Gibson reviews Hayden White’s second volume of “The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
In the Late Ming, Literature Is Survival
Mahika Dhar reviews two classics of Chinese literature: Kong Shangren’s “The Peach Blossom Fan” and Zhang Yingyu’s “More Swindles from the Late Ming.”
A History That Needs to Be Retold
Vivien Chang reviews Howard W. French’s “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.”
One Island, Many Histories
Michelle T. King reviews Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison’s “Revolutionary Taiwan” and Anna Beth Keim’s “Heaven Does Not Block All Roads.”
Howling Memories
Rhoda Kwan reviews two newly translated novels reckoning with China’s bloody past, Fang Fang’s “Soft Burial” and Tsering Döndrup’s “The Red Wind Howls.”
A Child in the State of Nature
Mitchell Abidor reviews the reprint edition of Roger Shattuck’s “The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron.”
The Best Troll Rome Ever Knew
Edward Watts reviews Josiah Osgood’s “Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome.”
Emergency Unending
Darren Wan reviews Hai Fan’s “Delicious Hunger,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, as well as Tiang’s own novel, “State of Emergency.”
History’s Back Staircases
Emily Van Duyne explores Diana Arterian’s “Agrippina the Younger.”
Spooking the Censors
Michael O’Donnell reads Charlie English’s “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.”
Delicate and Dirty
Ben Arthur revisits a transformative moment in American culture through the lens of J. Hoberman’s “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop.”
An Active Project of Exclusion
Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review “Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men,” by Patricia Owens.
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