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In the Shadow of Stalin
Ed Pulford reviews Ben Nathans’s “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement” and Perry Link and Wu Dazhi’s “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
No, Time to Die: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part Two
In the second installment of a quarterly series, Brendan Boyle and Adam Nayman consider the cinema of the Biden years.
Golden Age Titans
Michele Willens talks with film critic Kenneth Turan about Hollywood Golden Age moguls Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg.
They Can’t Throw Us All Out
Christine Terrisse interviews Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn about their new book “Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World.”
Kill in the Name of AutoZone
Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews Patty Heyda’s “Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA.”
Love in a Time of Revolution
Torsa Ghosal speaks with Nishant Batsha about his new novel, “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart.”
Unveiling a Hidden Narrative
John G. Turner explores Molly Worthen’s “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump.”
Fourth of July Reading List
Here’s to another year of freedom.
From Democracy to “Safety”
Kristen R. Ghodsee considers the anti-communist contexts that birthed the alt-right, in a review of Quinn Slobodian’s new book “Hayek’s Bastards.”
There Isn’t Going to Be Any Trouble
Jane Hayward reads two recent books on China’s post-Mao reform period.
Cracked, Costly Fantasies
Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
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.
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