A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
The history of censorship is inextricable from the history of power and in a changing world, it behooves us to consider how to balance speech and security.
The new book, which proposes a Jewish notary as the person responsible for giving up the Franks’ hiding place, has come under fire by historians who question its assertions.
In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.
An outcropping of French theory, postmodernism is most evident in its connection to neoliberalism and our overtly consumerist society.
Hammond has written a text that is frankly unclassifiable: part biography, part critical exegesis, part hipster manifesto.
In his new memoir, the author contemplates his life and community in the wake of two significant figures dying within five months of each other.
A book about art produced by mentally ill psychiatric patients gave the Nazis cover first to eliminate the art, then to move on to the artists.
The Stanford University professor surveys the literary landscape in the shadow of the online giant.
For the author, the titular condition involves those moments when one is just trying to live one’s life and is suddenly reminded of one’s race.
“It’s difficult to assign a specific cultural meaning to the bad clown, because it is such a malleable archetype,” Radford writes.