Blazing Old Worlds: On Francesca Peacock’s “Pure Wit”
Thomas Elrod reviews Francesca Peacock’s “Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish.”
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Elrod reviews Francesca Peacock’s “Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish.”
Thomas ElrodFeb 5
LARB presents an excerpt of Lauren Markham’s new book “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
Lauren MarkhamFeb 1
Laurent Dubois reviews two new books on Haiti’s past and present: Marlene L. Daut’s “Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History” and Jake Johnston’s...
Laurent DuboisJan 30
Deborah Coen shows how historians miss a great deal when they rely on the quantitative tools of scientists.
Deborah R. CoenJan 25
Yael Friedman speaks with Wim Wenders and provides a review of his work with sculptor Anselm Kiefer in the wake of Wenders’s new documentary, “Anselm...
Yael FriedmanJan 24
Ian Ellison reviews Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War.”
Ian EllisonJan 14
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.”
Jarrod ShanahanJan 11
Mike Rodelli considers John Keahey’s “Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire.”
Mike RodelliJan 10
Julie Park reflects on the process of bringing out her book on the 18th-century camera obscura.
Julie ParkJan 9
Craig Calhoun reviews two books on history and memory in China: Ian Johnson’s “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the...
Craig CalhounJan 6
Edna Bonhomme reviews Nicholas L. Syrett’s “The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous ‘Female Physician’ and the...
Edna BonhommeJan 3
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
Julien CrockettJan 2