Wellspring
The classic story of the child down the well played out in Southern California at the dawn of television....
The Colonial Mentality, Past and Present
Ronjaunee Chatterjee reviews "The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756–1815" by Ashley L. Cohen....
Desert Plantations
Tom Prezelski considers “West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire,” the new book by Kevin Waite....
We Are the Fiumians
Aliza Wong reads “The Fiume Crisis” by Dominique Kirchner Reill and sees parallels to our current political crisis....
Fugitive Pedagogy: The Longer Roots of Antiracist Teaching
Jarvis R. Givens outlines the history of Black educators and what today's antiracist teachers can learn from them....
The Bookseller as Humanist: A Conversation with Ross King
Nick Owchar talks with Ross King on his book about the Italian bookseller who spurred the Renaissance....
After the Expulsion: An Excerpt from “Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction”
Ilan Stavans explores Sephardic literature in this excerpt from “Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction.”...
Night with a Nihilist: On Faith Hillis’s “Utopia’s Discontents”
Ania Aizman is engrossed by “Utopia’s Discontents,” Faith Hillis’s history of 19th-century revolutionaries and Jewish radicals....
California’s Vigilante Tradition
The far-right protestors in Huntington Beach aren’t as novel as they seem....
The Life — and Lives — of the Party: Communism in China, 1921–2021
Martin Laflamme evaluates “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives” and “From Rebel to Ruler.”...
The Land of Dreamers
How a multiethnic neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles signifies democracy....
Mistresses of Subterfuge: On Judy Batalion’s “The Light of Days”
Puloma Mukherjee reviews Judy Batalion’s “The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos.”...
