The America That the Warner Brothers Made
Warner Bros is at its most stimulating when it regards the studio’s movies, stars, and filmmakers as both passive reflections and active agents of a monolithic American cultural identity.
Reviews
Within Our Gates
May aims to demonstrate that, over the past fifty years or more, there has emerged a “new consensus” that Americans have everything to fear—especially from each other—despite the fact that in very many ways their world has grown safer.
How Old Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
Hitler’s American Model is invaluable in comprehending the creative political maneuvering deployed, across time and international boundaries, to satisfy this racism.
Charles de Gaulle and the France He Made
Though Jackson has a generally favorable opinion of de Gaulle, he makes no attempt to hide his difficult personality and his craftily dishonest manipulation of people and institutions. The result is both even-handed and definitive.
The Universality of White Racism
Given that the book was written for a white audience, how did I feel as a person of color reading it? The simple answer is mixed.
Is Rape the New Campus Rage?
Unwanted Advances is a provocative, if frustrating, read.
A Sisterhood of Small Secrets
Secret Sisterhood offers little in the way of secrets and even less in the way of female literary friendship.
The Fabulous Life of the Earth Moving Machine
Apart from a history of heavy machinery, Ammon's book also examines shifting attitudes towards the wholesale clearance of land from World War II through 1973.
Science and the History of Left-Handedness
If we read On the Other Hand as a meditation on the uses of history, we might say that for Kushner, history itself emerges as a left-handed discipline.
The Dubious Virtue of Apostasy
If there is not much new on GM agriculture or even on the dynamics of defection, we are not left with much except a deceptive broadside against anti-GMO activism, authenticated only by Lynas’s special standing.