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Deborah Cohen

Deborah Cohen is Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is writing a book about American foreign correspondents who reported from interwar Europe and Asia, including John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, Dorothy Thompson, and H.R. Knickerbocker. (September 2018)

Edward Burtynsky: Manufacturing #11, Youngor Textiles, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005

Missing the Dark Satanic Mills

Joshua B. Freeman’s ‘Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World’

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

by Joshua B. Freeman

September 27, 2018 issue

Christmas morning at Jackie and David Siegel’s Seagull Island mansion, Windermere, Florida, 2010. Their construction of a 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by the palace of Versailles was the subject of Lauren Greenfield’s documentary The Queen of Versailles (2012); this photograph appears in her new book, Generation Wealth, just published by Phaidon.

More Is More

How did we come to be such voracious, irrepressible consumers?

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann

May 25, 2017 issue

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