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Here is the first installment of some of the books that the Blog’s editors have lined up for summer. From art history to critical theory, from fiction to poetry, we’ve got you covered if you’re looking for something to pick… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Emma Kluge On April 12-13, scholars from across the world gathered together at the University of Sydney for Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in International History: New Geographic and Scalar Perspectives. This workshop and conference was birthed… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng I finished Sheila Heti’s Motherhood over Mother’s Day weekend. In this book, Heti asks herself if she should have a child. If she should be a mother. I hadn’t planned on reading Motherhood over Mother’s… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J Weinreich I hasten to assure the reader that Bloodflower’s Melancholia is not contagious. It is not fatal. It is not, in fact, real. It is the creation of British novelist Tamar Yellin, her contribution to The… Continue Reading →
Nuala Alexandra Alvergne and Vedrana Högqvist Tabor, “Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation,” (TREE) Jen Banbury, “The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver” (Atlas Obscura) Jill Lapore, “The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson”(New Yorker) Jenna… Continue Reading →
The Spring 2018 edition of the Journal of the History of Ideas. When the Eyes Are Shut: The Strange Case of Girolamo Cardano’s Idolum in Somniorum Synesiorum Libri IIII (1562) by Anna Corrias Pierre Bayle and the Secularization of Conscience… Continue Reading →
Derek Stephanie McCarter, “The Bad Wives: Misogyny’s Age-Old Roots in the Home” (Eidolon) Sam Haselby, “These should be the end times for patriotism” (aeon) Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, “How Economists Became Timid” (Chronicle of Higher Education) Claire Messud, “Wilder… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor AJ Hawks I first started studying taekwondo when I was in high school, partially because of the movies (“Can he really do that?!”) and partially to please my Korean grandmother who had handed me a flier about… Continue Reading →
Sundry readings from our editorial team this week: AJ: Alina Cohen, “The Legendary Bars Where Famous Artists Drank, Debated, and Made Art History” (Artsy) Lungisile Ntsebeza, “This Land is Our Land” (Foreign Policy) Ronald Brownstein, “American Higher Education Hits a… Continue Reading →
