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“Hidden Figures”: The True Story of the Black Women at NASA Daring “Fearlessly to Pursue Their Dreams”
Mekeisha Madden Toby talks to Margot Lee Shetterly, author of "Hidden Figures."
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Outlandish Assertions: Response to Joel Whitney
Finks, Fronts, and Puppets: Revisiting the Cultural Cold War
Greg Barnhisel reviews two books on the Cultural Cold War.
Hijack: The CIA and Literary Culture
Strange bedfellows: The CIA and culture mavens collude in the Cold War and beyond.
Hollywood! With the Reddish Tinge: Clancy Sigal’s 1950s
Anything could happen in Clancy Sigal’s 1950s.
The Cybernetic Humanities
Leif Weatherby reviews three recent books on the history of cybernetics.
Walls, Fences, Frontiers: A Fugitive Essay
Gregory McNamee on the American frontier.
Yosemite: A Paradise Imperiled
Scott Lankford reviews “A Sense of Yosemite.”
Dave McKean: “Black Dog”
Dave McKean, well known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, has a new book that purports to be the dream life of modernist painter Paul Nash.
Allegorical Knowledge: The Art of Alchemy
Johanna Drucker reviews two new exhibits at the Getty, “The Art of Alchemy” and “The Alchemy of Color.”
Limitless Achievement: On “East West Street”
Kate McLoughlin on Philippe Sands's "East West Street."
Now It Looks Like Camelot
Who was President Clinton? John Compton looks to Russell L. Riley's oral history "Inside the Clinton White House" to find out.
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