Elle Kurancid writes about the aftermath of the earthquake in Syria, with documentary photographs by Walaa Alshaer....

Paul J. D’Ambrosio reviews Daniel Bell’s “The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University.”...

Samuel C. Huneke takes Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke” to task....

Nina Pasquini reviews Hawon Jung’s “Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide” and Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose’s “Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China.”...

Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara speaks with author Naomi Klein about her new book,“Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”...

Krzysztof Pelc mostly agrees with Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy” but quibbles that it’s hard to draw the line between the peculiarly 21st-century type of influence they describe—which flows from fiber-optic cables, data centers, and dollar clearinghouses—and more conventional types of power....

Mark Eaton reviews “Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today,” edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski....

Historian Daniela Blei beautifully captures the essence of Uwe Wittstock’s newly translated “February 1933: The Winter of Literature.”...

Aniko Bodroghkozy writes about the tiki torch march in Charlottesville and the media-savvy aspects of the alt-right....

Alessandro Camon discusses the WGA/SAG strike as a turning point for Hollywood....

Laurie L. Levenson reviews Miriam Aroni Krinsky’s “Change from Within: Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor” and discusses the “progressive prosecution” movement in the criminal justice system....

Dara Rossman Regaignon explores what George Eliot’s Victorian fiction can tell us about the complexities of pregnancy, viability, miscarriage, abortion, and intent....

Jerald Podair, Zach Messitte, and Charles J. Holden reconsider the legacy of Spiro Agnew....

Jodi Dean reviews Sohrab Ahmari’s “Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What To Do About It” and Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.”...

Kathryn Cramer Brownell on the electoral transformations wrought by cable news and the evolving media landscape....

Kate Durbin speaks with author Amanda Montei about her new book “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”...

The engine of the right-wing movement is a narrative about social disgrace, according to Anthony Nadler and Doron Taussig....