A collection of 231 posts
A new book by Phoebe Maltz Bovy argues that most accounts of female heterosexuality minimise and even theorise away its central feature: women’s sexual desire for men.
The son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers has written a perceptive, fascinating, and rather sad book about his lonely life as the child of violent revolutionaries.
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
In an excellent new biography of Rasputin, British military historian Antony Beevor argues that perception can be a more powerful shaper of world events than reality.
The new film 'Project Hail Mary' based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel, celebrates scientific problem-solving on a cosmic scale. There are striking parallels with David Deutsch's radical optimism.
A new account of the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge attempts to straighten out the record and place the story in a broader political and theological context.
Jason Zengerle’s new book about the degradation of a once-gifted writer and broadcaster also illustrates the downward trajectory of the entire news industry during the same period.
Laura K. Field’s smart new book takes a critical look at MAGA’s Ivy League intellectuals.
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
It’s hard to believe in God when even very bright, thoughtful people can’t come up with good reasons why you should.
A reply to Bruce Gilley.
A new book details the conspiratorial thinking and dark histories of two Capitol rioters.
Mary Clare Jalonick’s oral history of the 6 January riot is an important corrective to the second Trump administration’s vandalism of the historical record.
Two new books about America’s justice system paint a bleak picture of a deeply divided country.