Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb: On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”
Alex Wellerstein assesses the depiction of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film.
Alex Wellerstein assesses the depiction of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film.
Alex WellersteinAug 30, 2023
Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”
Yelena FurmanAug 29, 2023
Musicologist Judith Finell reviews Harvey Sachs’s new biography of the influential and misunderstood 20th-century musical genius Arnold Schoenberg...
Judith FinellAug 29, 2023
Craig Childs reviews Tom Zoellner’s “Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona.”
Craig ChildsAug 27, 2023
Jerald Podair, Zach Messitte, and Charles J. Holden reconsider the legacy of Spiro Agnew.
Zach Messitte, Charles J. Holden, Jerald PodairAug 27, 2023
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book “The Warner Brothers,” Chris Yogerst elucidates the history of the big Hollywood strikes of the 1940s.
Chris YogerstAug 22, 2023
Sabina Knight reviews the poetry and historical writing of Julian Gewirtz in “Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s” and...
Sabina KnightAug 21, 2023
Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New...
Stephen RohdeAug 13, 2023
William Jones considers Samuel Freedman’s new biography of Hubert Humphrey, “Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil...
William JonesAug 10, 2023
Eleanor J. Bader speaks with Barbara Winslow about her new book “Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle.”
Eleanor J. BaderAug 8, 2023
Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”
Stephen RohdeAug 4, 2023
Hollis Robbins reviews Vincent Carretta’s “Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” and David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of...
Hollis RobbinsJul 30, 2023
The pleasures of reading the titles from MIT Press’s new Radium Age series, writes historian of science Michael Gordin, lies in the science fiction...
Michael D. GordinJul 27, 2023
Jonathan van Harmelen offers a historical account of the undersung, at times controversial, anti-racist western, John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black...
Jonathan van HarmelenJul 27, 2023
Rana Mitter reviews Nile Green’s “How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding.”
Rana MitterJul 25, 2023
Samuel Tchorek-Bentall explores the career of Marek Edelman, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Samuel Tchorek-BentallJul 24, 2023
Randal Maurice Jelks reviews three books about the African American experience in war: Beth Bailey’s “An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its...
Randal Maurice JelksJul 17, 2023
Gary Cross reviews Darryl Holter and Stephen Gee’s “Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900–1930.”
Gary CrossJul 15, 2023
Nile Green reviews Nicholas Morton’s “The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East.”
Nile GreenJul 15, 2023
Tim Hirschel-Burns reviews Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction.”
Tim Hirschel-BurnsJul 13, 2023
Ed Simon argues for the necessity of a theoretical “People’s History of Theology.”
Ed SimonJul 12, 2023
Edward Carver reviews David Graeber’s posthumous “Pirate Enlightenment, or The Real Libertalia.”
Edward CarverJul 11, 2023
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa reviews Philip Bowring’s “The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of the Jigsaw State.”
Luisita Lopez TorregrosaJul 11, 2023
Adam Sobsey reviews Marsha Gordon’s “Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott,” a biography of the writer...
Adam SobseyJul 10, 2023