Sex Ed for Christians
A pair of new books challenge conventional assumptions about sex and Christianity....
Responding to an Emergency: On Lynn Hunt’s “History: Why it Matters”
Robert Zaretsky appreciates “History: Why it Matters,” a rallying cry for the discipline by Lynn Hunt....
The Voices of Hayden White
Amy Elias reminds us of what we have lost with the passing of Hayden White, one of the great humanist minds of our time....
The Dark Side of Nice
D. Berton Emerson on Carrie Tirado Bramen’s “American Niceness: A Cultural History”...
Beast Mode
Colin Dickey on Peter Sahlins’s “1668: The Year of the Animal in France”...
Navigating “The Epic City”
A multifarious portrait of a giant South Asian city....
The Surprising Roots of Recent White Extremism
On Kathleen Belew's "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."...
Inventing the Pogrom: Assigning Meaning to the Kishinev Massacre
How the word “pogrom” became one of the surprisingly few Russian words that have ever made it into English....
“Weapons Not of the Weak, but of the Strong”: On Nikolay Koposov’s “Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia”
Douglas Smith on “Memory Laws, Memory Wars,” by Nikolay Koposov, which “makes clear the dangers in trying to legislate our understanding of the past.”...
Fifty Years of Beyond Baroque: 1968–2018
Johanna Drucker celebrates the 50th anniversary of Beyond Baroque, one of Los Angeles’s core cultural institutions....
Out of the Mystic
Jeff Melnick on Ryan H. Walsh’s “Astral Weeks,” a history of Van Morrison’s iconic album....
“Johnny Appleseed” and the Revision of American Masculinity
Ashley Rattner reviews Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver's graphic biography "Johnny Appleseed."...
