Victim of His Own Celebrity: On Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks”
Chris Yogerst reviews Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks: A Story of Celebrity.”...
Plummeting Upstairs: On Joseph Sassoon's “The Sassoons”
Pratinav Anil finds much to admire in Joseph Sassoon’s history of his own storied merchant family....
L.A., LAtinx Style: A Conversation Between Natalia Molina, Juan De Lara, George J. Sánchez, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
A panel at the 2022 LA Times Festival of Books addressed the past and future of Los Angeles’s Latinx neighborhoods....
The Overlooked Indian Dynasties: On Anirudh Kanisetti’s “Lords of the Deccan”
Arun A. K. praises the peninsular history of India’s early medieval period by Anirudh Kanisetti....
Human Interest: On Deborah Cohen’s “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial”
Thomas J. Sojka considers Deborah Cohen’s study of five US journalists immediately before World War II....
The Method Is the Main Character: A Conversation with Isaac Butler
Lauren Goldenberg talks with Isaac Butler about his new book, “The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act.”...
The Hidden War
Greg Barnhisel considers “Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939–1945” by Halik Kochanski....
Spy Versus Sly: On Jefferson Morley’s “Scorpions’ Dance”
Jacob Sugarman considers a hair-raising account of CIA misdeeds in Jefferson Morley’s “Scorpions’ Dance.”...
Decline and Fall
Andrew Louth reviews Paul Stephenson's new book on the Byzantine Empire, "New Rome: The Empire in the East."...
Children’s Maps of the American Empire: A Conversation with Mahshid Mayar
M. Buna speaks with Mahshid Mayar about her book “Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire.”...
Cycles of History: On Jody Rosen’s “Two Wheels Good”
Jonathan Liebson reviews Jody Rosen’s “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.”...
The Bad Mexicans of the Mexican Revolution
Ximena Delgado finds much that is good in “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire & Revolution in the Borderlands” by Kelly Lytle Hernández....
