Non-fiction

Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique

Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

Mar 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein

The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism

With Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg has recast the debate about the origins and nature of anti-Semitism in Western thought.

Mar 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / R.I. Moore

No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis

No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis

How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

Mar 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower

Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

Mar 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Holly Case

Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz

Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

Mar 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple

You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting

You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Auerbach

In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Stalker

Stalker Stalker

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

Shelf Life

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

Jan 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer

Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti

Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti

The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.

Jan 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Madison Smartt Bell

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