Cruel but Not Unusual: Putting Down the Attica Uprising of 1971
Mary F. Corey on Heather Ann Thompson's Pulitzer Prize–winning "Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy."...
Ghostly Parades in Lost Cities: Babel’s Odessa and Wittlin’s L’viv
Uilleam Blacker reviews the new Pushkin Collection editions of Isaac Babel and Józef Wittlin....
Making New Friends: The Genetics of Animal Domestication
The story of the Russian geneticists who domesticated the silver fox....
A Republican for Our Times?
Think you know what it means to be Machiavellian? You don’t know the half of it, says our reviewer....
Simulation Liberation Army
Alternative histories of the Patty Hearst kidnapping add to an already complicated narrative, writes our reviewer....
The Spy Who Funded Me: Revisiting the Congress for Cultural Freedom
Patrick Iber reconsiders the legacy of the Congress for Cultural Freedom....
How to Travel in Time
Is the age of time travel already over, and when did it begin?...
“Great Man, Finish ‘Les Misérables’”: David Bellos’s “The Novel of the Century”
Henrik Bering explores “The Novel of the Century” by David Bellos....
The Shipwreck of History: Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer”
Roy Scranton reviews Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer.”...
The Groves of Academe: On “Keep the Damned Women Out”
Andrew Seal on Nancy Weiss Malkiel's "'Keep the Damned Women Out': The Struggle for Coeducation."...
“And My Frigidaire is Here!”: Gender and Family Life in Postwar France
John Merriman reviews “From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution” by Sarah Fishman....
Promises, Promises: The Strange History of Film and the Armenian Genocide
Michelle Tusan revisits the fraught history of the Armenian Genocide on film....
