Category: Books
The Contours of Trauma
Mary L Trump at The Good In Us: Since Voices Carry, to one degree or…
The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
by Adele A. Wilby at 3 Quarks Daily: Many decades ago, I was fortunate to…
The Riot in Toronto: An Excerpt From The Revelations
by Erik Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective: IN THE SUMMER after they graduated from college,…
Gray Matters: A Neurosurgeon’s Inside Look at the Brain
by Erica Good at the Undark: Many years ago, I read a book about neurosurgery…
Books That Shook the Business World: Exponential by Azeem Azhar
Sreevas Sahasranamam at The Conversation: I originally got introduced to Azeem Azhar, the English journalist,…
‘Life with Picasso’ & ‘La Collectionneuse’
Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico at Commonweal: We’re publishing these exchanges just about every two…
Tejas Parasher on M.N. Roy and Parliamentary Democracy in Modern India
From the Journal of the History of Ideas: Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political…
What a Courtroom Sketch Artist Sees
Tina Jordan at The New York Times Book Review: The sketch above appears in a…
A Passage From “The Killers”
“The Killers” is a short story by Charles Bukowski in his 1973 collection, South of No North. Bukowski, greatly influenced by Hemingway…
British Historian Richard J. Evans on Today’s Authoritarian Leaders, and His New Book, Hitler’s People
Historian Richard J. Evans discusses his new book with Jim Kelly, explaining why top Nazis came from the middle class, whether a new Hitler is possible, and his love for Babylon Berlin
Virtual Reality Reboots History
Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis: Because of this renewed sense of urgency to…
Why Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
M.V. Ramana at Literary Hub: I am scared about how fast climate change is disrupting…