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Syria: From Conflict to Transition
With the world’s eyes on Syria, Maxine Davey reflects on Najwa al-Qattan’s essay on Rania Abouzeid’s “No Turning Back” and the human cost of the civil war.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Disaster Triumphant
Visiting Trinity Site, location of the Manhattan Project, Christopher Kempf is stunned by the failures of the American curatorial imagination.
Syria’s Forgotten Island of Opposition
In an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Charlie Clewis reports from a military compound in the Syrian desert.
The Hazards of Slavery
Scott Spillman reviews Seth Rockman’s “Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery.”
The Character of Chinese Computing
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham reviews Thomas S. Mullaney’s “The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age.”
The Politics of Pigmentation
In the sixth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Suman Seth explores the anti-history of the evolution of whiteness.
Under Large Candelabra
Charlie Taylor reviews “Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals” by Maurice J. Casey.
The Invention of Tolerance
Jeffrey Collins reviews Jed W. Atkins’s “The Christian Origins of Tolerance.”
On Melons and Melancholy
Ben Wurgaft demonstrates how Steven Shapin’s “Eating and Being” illuminates the intellectual and cultural dynamics of “dietetics”—the relationship between diet, health, and identity—like no prior work on the subject.
Tropical Malaise
Rafaela Bassili reviews Stephen G. Bloom’s “The Brazil Chronicles.”
Chronicles of Collapse
Erik Loomis reviews “The Burning Earth: A History” by Sunil Amrith.
A Different Dust Bowl
Tia Glista reviews Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s “Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb.”
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