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How to Cast a Metal Lizard

The knowledge that underpins our world of things has been discovered over centuries, produced as the result of collaboration and generally unrecorded. How does a historian overcome these obstacles?

From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

by Pamela H. Smith


Questioning Desire

Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex is rare in its ability to speak to a plural audience—queer and straight, multiracial and multigendered—with the assumption that we have some common interests in sex and dating even if we have varied experiences of them.

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

by Amia Srinivasan


These Disunited States

It is time to consider a radical solution to stave off the prospect of political violence and even civil war in the US.

‘Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive’

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

by Angela Y. Davis

Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing

edited by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean


My Husband the War Criminal

Nancy Dougherty’s The Hangman and His Wife portrays Reinhard Heydrich as a cold, apolitical technocrat while downplaying his ideological commitment to Nazism.

The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich

by Nancy Dougherty, edited and with a foreword by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt


Rococo Risks

With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an account of motherhood at a crossroads, now that art and mortality share an empty nest.

Venice

by Ange Mlinko


Our Toxic Nuclear Present

Blindness to the aftermath of nuclear detonations has consistently marginalized some of the most traumatized victims of the atomic age.

Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders

by Walter Pincus

Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb

by Togzhan Kassenova

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

by Serhii Plokhy

Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis

by Toshihiro Higuchi


Disaster Was Her Element

Miranda Seymour’s I Used to Live Here Once is a richly detailed and warmly sympathetic look at Jean Rhys’s turbulent, disjointed life.

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

by Miranda Seymour


Promise and Disillusion in South Africa

Despite a shift in political power, the country is plagued by racial divisions and economic inequalities.

These Are Not Gentle People: Two Dead Men. Forty Suspects. The Trial That Broke a Small South African Town

by Andrew Harding

Prisoners of the Past: South African Democracy and the Legacy of Minority Rule

by Steven Friedman

The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning

by Eve Fairbanks


Brick, Mortar, and Rot

The novels of the late, contrarian Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes have come to seem prophetic.

Cremation

by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Valerie Miles

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