The Crisis of Classical Studies: On Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome”
Edward Watts reviews Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.”
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Edward Watts reviews Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.”
Edward J. WattsMar 29
Fred Turner reviews Jane Kamensky’s “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below.”
Fred TurnerMar 28
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Adam Phillips’s “On Giving Up.”
Sarah MoorhouseMar 26
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia...
Meena VenkataramananMar 22
In an essay that takes off from Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry,” native son Jonah...
Jonah WaltersMar 21
Courtney Tenz reviews Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout: A Memoir of Doubt.”
Courtney TenzMar 18
Herb Randall reviews Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.”
Herb RandallMar 18
In Joe Roman’s “Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World,” Ferris Jabr finds a compelling account of important scientific insights.
Ferris JabrMar 16
T. M. Brown reviews Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed...
T. M. BrownMar 15
Jack Miles reviews James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor” in light of the new film “The Zone of...
Jack MilesMar 4
Peter Campion reviews David Thomson’s “Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV.”
Peter CampionFeb 26
Adam Elder interviews the master interviewer, Lawrence Grobel.
Adam ElderFeb 26