The Limelight Kid
John Tytell reviews Mary V. Dearborn’s new biography of Hemingway....
Ignore History at Your Own Urban Peril
Austin Allyn reviews Alexander Vasudevan's new history of urban squatting....
Bookish Basketball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Latest
Seth Greenland reviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's new memoir, "Coach Wooden and Me."...
Between Life and Norms
The most provocatively illiberal moments in Nietzsche should not end the argument. Barry Stocker reviews Hugo Drochon's "Nietzsche's Great Politics."...
From Emergency to Monopoly: Presidential War Games
Our reviewer finds fault with a new book’s contention that executive power has led the United States to the brink of “elective dicatatorship.”...
Crime and Publishing: The Story of Jack Abbott and Norman Mailer
Remembering Jack Abbott, the convicted murderer who was Norman Mailer’s literary protégé....
Between East and West, I Lost Myself: “Refuge” by Dina Nayeri
Azarin Sadegh ventures through Dina Nayeri's "Refuge."...
Where We Run Out of Continent: On Daniel Riley’s “Fly Me”
Sarah Tomlinson appreciates the loving portrait of Southern California in “Fly Me” by Daniel Riley....
Rough Men Standing Ready: On Mark Moyar’s History of US Special Ops
Henrik Bering vets “Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces” by Mark Moyar....
Black-and-Gray Realism
Jason S. Sexton connects to the story of legendary Los Angeles tattoo artists Freddy Negrete, as told in his memoir, “Smile Now, Cry Later.”...
Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers
David Weinberger on the problems of Cass R. Sunstein's "#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media."...
Reverse Robin Hood: The Historical Scam of Global Development
When a world system is based on the creation of scarcity, it is the meek that inherit that scarcity....
