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does it hold up
October 31, 2024
Noah McCormack
Jessica Mitford’s Escape From Fascism
“Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ideological conflict in a family.
September 24, 2024
Patrick Iber
Eric Hobsbawm’s Lament for the Twentieth Century
Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.
July 10, 2024
Andre Pagliarini
The Motorcycle Diaries
Made Revolution a Pop Culture Product
The diaries changed Che Guevara’s image from toughened fighter to sensitive, less certain young man.
June 19, 2024
Alice Robb
The Unexpected Afterlife of
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy’s 1994 bestseller has become part of a larger story of literary friendship and the boundaries between artists and their work.
June 6, 2024
Mike Duncan
In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon’s Masterpiece
“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is an enduring work—just not of history.
May 22, 2024
Audra J. Wolfe
What Was the “Paradigm Shift”?
When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.
May 8, 2024
Does It Hold Up?
Classic works, reconsidered
May 8, 2024
Jacob Silverman
The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.
Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.
April 24, 2024
Colin Dickey
Lost in the Five Stages of Grief
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “On Death and Dying” sparked a revolution in end-of-life care. But soon she began to deny mortality altogether.
April 10, 2024
Samuel Clowes Huneke
Reading
Imagined Communities
Amid a Resurgence of Nationalism
What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world.
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