Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”...
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”
LARB presents an excerpt from Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge.”...
The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits
Henry M. Cowles evaluates "The Knowledge Machine," the new book by Michael Strevens....
All Souls Rising
An anthology of African American literature arrives right on time....
Greenwood at 100
Carter Brace considers the legacy of the 1921 Tulsa massacre....
Playing Catch with Los Angeles
A new cultural history of Los Angeles has more twists and curves than Angeles Crest Highway but provides views just as spectacular....
Amnesiacs and Bystanders: On Géraldine Schwarz’s “Those Who Forget”
A postwar whitewashing of Vichy France reflects on the American situation....
Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
Reviewing “On the Fringe,” Suman Seth uses 18th-century theories of putrefaction to show how flimsy the line between science and pseudoscience can be....
French Secularism, Reinvented
What can France’s history with Catholicism tell us about today’s culture wars over Islam?...
A Look at Nothing: On Susan A. Crane’s “Nothing Happened: A History”
Vesper North considers "Nothing Happened," a new history by Susan A. Crane....
The Collaborative Skein: Searching for a Way Forward in Polish-Jewish Relations, a Conversation
Louise Steinman and Piotr Florczyk offer a wide-ranging and provocative discussion of the legacy of the Holocaust in Poland....
The Eternal Huizinga
A new translation of an enduring classic of late-medieval scholarship....
