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The Discreet Charm of White-Collar Jihad

Joseph Allchin

August 25, 2020

On the internet habits, social anxieties, and class biases of Al Qaeda recruits.

All at Sea

Harris Feinsod

August 24, 2020

Surveying the watery expanses of the world economy.

Bromanticism

Jeremy Gordon

August 18, 2020

A new collection looks at Greek life’s softer side.

Dick Pics, Dark Rooms

Patrick Nathan

August 12, 2020

Radiation, film, trauma, the elements: to expose is a one-way verb. The nuclear reactor knows nothing of the bodies it degrades. Light is invulnerable to the celluloid it stains. The man who exposes himself does so without empathy. There’s no unseeing a man’s penis, and even ...

Razors, Razors, Razors

Gavin Jacobson

August 11, 2020

How the United States abetted mass murder to save the world from communism.

The Hidden Faces of Apartheid

Bongani Kona

August 04, 2020

Uncovering the secret crimes of the apartheid security police.

Mirror on Mirror

Stephanie Burt

July 27, 2020

Two parallel women, millennia apart, whose carefully acquired beauty made them patriarchy’s ideal targets.

Game Face

James Wham

July 21, 2020

A new collection of Olympic films tries to skip the politics.

Storm in a Teacup

Francis Wade

July 16, 2020

On tea, colonial trade, and the origins of capitalism in India and China.

What Women Want

Kristen Martin

July 14, 2020

Two new novels probe the dangers of desiring more than your lot.

Fool’s Gold

Gene Seymour

July 08, 2020

In Spike Lee's latest, black vets return to Vietnam.

No Safe Haven

Leo Schwartz

June 29, 2020

Two books consider how U.S. policy ravages the Northern Triangle.