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The Political Print: On David Francis Taylor’s “The Politics of Parody”
Jake Fuchs reviews “The Politics of Parody,” a literary analysis of British satirical prints by David Francis Taylor.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Democracy by Numbers
The challenges of partisan gerrymandering are not new, nor is the hope that mathematics can offer a cure.
Waves of Mutilation: An Excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America’s Most Infamous Family”
LARB presents an excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family.”
The Lone and Level Sands
A lively history of an underappreciated resource.
Watching a Country Unravel, One Person at a Time: An Intimate Account of Syria’s Civil War
A new, in-depth history of the Syrian Civil War puts a human face on an intractable conflict.
Darkness in Daylight
The author of a global history of concentration camps on the dehumanization rhetoric in the United States.
Reverse Cowboy
Disentangling fact from myth in the figure of the American cowboy.
Naomi Hirahara’s Los Angeles
Mike Sonksen profiles Naomi Hirahara, author of the Mas Arai mystery series.
Reconstructing the “Outlines of a Disappeared World”: An Interview with Philippe Sands
Emily-Rose Baker interviews Philippe Sands, an international lawyer and author whose work and writing focuses on mass killings and the Holocaust.
Eisenhower and Warren: Parallel Lives
"Eisenhower vs. Warren" is a well-paced, balanced account of two remarkable men.
A Hope Manifesto for Times of Resistance
Keli Goff is inspired by “The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela.”
A Holocaust in Slow Motion: On Kelly Lytle Hernández’s “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, And The Rise Of Human Caging In Los Angeles, 1771-1965”
Mary F. Corey reviews “City of Inmates” by Kelly Lytle Hernández, a historical account of mass incarceration and genocide in Los Angeles.
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