The LA Review of Books asked me to review Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth: A History. This is a history of the last several hundred years through the lens of.
Over the past few decades, the realities of slavery have become more central to the stories Americans are willing to tell themselves about the early history of their nation. The.
Most of us are probably going to be infected with coronavirus. All these attempts to protect yourself by not touching people or your own face or whatever are almost 100%.
Like many professors, I will occasionally assign books in my classes because I've heard something good about them and haven't had time to read them. This is the second consecutive.
In our current public conversation about jobs, too often the media and the public point back to the era of the unionized factory job as the golden age. In one.
Margaret Hagerman's White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America is simply put one of the best books I have read in years. Hagerman, a sociologist, spent.
I'm always interested to read books hastily written to respond to a crisis a year or two after they are published. How are they dated? How well do they hold.
Of all the horrifying violence that defines the twentieth century, possibly no event gets less public attention than what happened in Indonesia after the military, led by Suharto and with.
