The Butcher, the Brewer, the Opium Smuggler: On Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes”
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
Noah SparkesMar 2
Lindsay Chervinsky reviews Katie Rogers’s “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.”
Lindsay ChervinskyFeb 29
Stephanie Elizondo Griest reviews Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
Timothy Leary sucked the revolutionary potential out of psychedelic science, concludes Kim Adams after reading Benjamin Breen’s “Tripping on Utopia...
Kim AdamsFeb 21
Jonathan Bolton uses the occasion of a new edition and translation of Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.,” first published in Prague in 1920, to revisit the...
Jonathan BoltonFeb 20
Tom Zoellner talks to Erika Marie Bsumek about one of the worst boondoggles in the Southwest, which she explores in her recent book “The Foundations...
Tom ZoellnerFeb 11
Anthony Alessandrini reviews Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.”
Anthony AlessandriniFeb 7
Thomas Elrod reviews Francesca Peacock’s “Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish.”
Thomas ElrodFeb 5
LARB presents an excerpt of Lauren Markham’s new book “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
Lauren MarkhamFeb 1
Laurent Dubois reviews two new books on Haiti’s past and present: Marlene L. Daut’s “Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History” and Jake Johnston’s...
Laurent DuboisJan 30
Deborah Coen shows how historians miss a great deal when they rely on the quantitative tools of scientists.
Deborah R. CoenJan 25
Yael Friedman speaks with Wim Wenders and provides a review of his work with sculptor Anselm Kiefer in the wake of Wenders’s new documentary, “Anselm...
Yael FriedmanJan 24
Ian Ellison reviews Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War.”
Ian EllisonJan 14
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.”
Jarrod ShanahanJan 11
Mike Rodelli considers John Keahey’s “Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire.”
Mike RodelliJan 10
Julie Park reflects on the process of bringing out her book on the 18th-century camera obscura.
Julie ParkJan 9
Craig Calhoun reviews two books on history and memory in China: Ian Johnson’s “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the...
Craig CalhounJan 6
Edna Bonhomme reviews Nicholas L. Syrett’s “The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous ‘Female Physician’ and the...
Edna BonhommeJan 3
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
Julien CrockettJan 2
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Carlos Eire’s “They Flew: A History of the Impossible.”
Peter B. KaufmanDec 12, 2023
Abena Ampofoa Asare writes about teaching Black history.
Abena Ampofoa AsareNov 30, 2023
Ed Simon reviews Benjamín Labatut’s newest book “The MANIAC.”
Ed SimonNov 25, 2023
Katherine Turk reviews Jenni Nuttall’s “Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words.”
Katherine TurkNov 15, 2023
Tom Zoellner talks to Lydia Otero about her new account of a young adulthood in Los Angeles, “L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir”
Tom ZoellnerNov 13, 2023