Territorial Taxonomy: On Melissa L. Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River”
Mary L. Holden considers Melissa Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon.”
Mary L. Holden considers Melissa Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon.”
Mary L. HoldenJun 25, 2023
Liesl Schwabe reviews Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India.”
Liesl SchwabeJun 22, 2023
Charles McKinney reviews J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.”
Charles W. McKinneyJun 15, 2023
Ellen Wayland-Smith is haunted by Audrey Clare Farley’s exposé, in “Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in...
Ellen Wayland-SmithJun 13, 2023
Tim Riley reviews Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska.’”
Tim RileyJun 9, 2023
Abe Silberstein reviews Godfrey Cheshire’s “In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema.”
Abe SilbersteinJun 8, 2023
Dan O’Brien reviews Robert Selby’s new poetry collection “The Kentish Rebellion.”
Dan O’BrienJun 7, 2023
Michael Ledger-Lomas reviews Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History.”
Michael Ledger-LomasJun 6, 2023
Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”
Martha Anne TollJun 4, 2023
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.
Massimo MazzottiJun 2, 2023
Natasha Lennard speaks with Nicholas Mirzoeff about his new book “White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness.”
Natasha LennardJun 1, 2023
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
Koritha MitchellMay 30, 2023
Matthew James Seidel reviews Leopoldo Gout’s “Piñata.”
Matthew James SeidelMay 27, 2023
Erin Thompson reviews Götz Aly's “The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure.”
Erin L. ThompsonMay 23, 2023
Robert N. Watson considers the promises and perils of cultural amalgamation in his review of Martin Puchner’s “Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave...
Robert N. WatsonMay 11, 2023
Dinyar Patel reviews Ulbe Bosma’s “The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years.”
Dinyar PatelMay 9, 2023
Bennett Parten reviews Andrew Diemer’s “Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad.”
Bennett PartenMay 7, 2023
Anders Engberg-Pedersen asks what happens when the military imagines war as an art.
Anders Engberg-PedersenMay 6, 2023
Devin Leigh evaluates the final work of Caribbean historian Eric Williams, “The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man: The Last Testament...
Devin LeighMay 1, 2023
Matthew Blackwell excavates the analog roots of the digital humanities.
Matthew BlackwellApr 29, 2023
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Burke’s “Ignorance: A Global History.”
Peter B. KaufmanApr 28, 2023
Tobias Boes reviews Charlotte A. Lerg’s “The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II.”
Tobias BoesApr 6, 2023
Doug Merlino reviews “To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré” by Reed Brody.
Doug MerlinoApr 2, 2023
Tom Zoellner reviews Emily Hilliard’s “Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia.”
Tom ZoellnerMar 20, 2023