Interviews

Cover Interview of January 30: Markus Krajewski On his book Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

Cover Interview of January 25: Brad Gregory On his book The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society

Cover Interview of January 23: Elaine Crane On her book Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America

Cover Interview of January 19: E. Monter On his book The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

Cover Interview of January 16: Clifford Ando On his book Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition

Cover Interview of January 13: David Hoffmann On his book Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914-1939

Cover Interview of January 11: Mabel Berezin On the Two Faces of the Euro Coins

Cover Interview of January 09: Brian Kalt On his book Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies

Cover Interview of January 05: Richard Pomfret On his book The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective

Cover Interview of January 02: Nancy Stepan On the continued appeal of disease eradication

Cover Interview of February 01: David Scheffer On his book All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

Cover Interview of January 31: Monica Smith On her book A Prehistory of Ordinary People

Cover Interview of January 26: Barbara Babcock On her book Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz

Cover Interview of January 24: David Kang On his book East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

Cover Interview of January 19: Elizabeth Cromley On her book The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses

Cover Interview of January 17: Leigh Schmidt On his book Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman

Cover Interview of January 12: Mark Traugott On his book The Insurgent Barricade

Cover Interview of January 10: Clare Palmer On her book Animal Ethics in Context

Cover Interview of January 04: J. Lendon On his book Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins

Cover Interview of January 03: Geoffrey Jones On his book Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

Cover Interview of February 28: Karen Beckman On her book Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

Cover Interview of February 23: Richard Arum On his (and Josipa Roksa's) book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

Cover Interview of February 21: Shelley Baranowski On her book Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler

Cover Interview of February 16: Susan Fainstein On her book The Just City

Cover Interview of February 14: Stephen Cohen On his book The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin

Cover Interview of February 09: Mark Driscoll On his book Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895–1945

Cover Interview of February 07: Christian Stadler On his book Enduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations

Cover Interview of February 02: Carolyn Dean On her book Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust

Cover Interview of March 30: Daniel Rodgers On his book Age of Fracture

Cover Interview of March 28: Kevin Saunders On his book Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech

Cover Interview of March 23: Craig Jeffrey On his book Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India

Cover Interview of March 21: S. Wiesen On his book Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich

Cover Interview of March 16: Richard McNally On his book What Is Mental Illness?

Cover Interview of March 14: Caroline Rody On her book The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction

Cover Interview of March 09: Martin Bojowald On his book Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe

Cover Interview of March 07: Paul Edwards On his book A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

Cover Interview of March 02: Paul Wapner On his book Living through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism

Cover Interview of April 27: Robert Wuthnow On his book Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s

Cover Interview of April 25: Paul Kahn On his book Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

Cover Interview of April 20: Djelal Kadir On his book Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability

Cover Interview of April 18: John Tully On his book The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber

Cover Interview of April 13: Minsoo Kang On his book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination

Cover Interview of April 11: Louise Shelley On her book Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective

Cover Interview of April 06: James Simpson On his book Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition

Cover Interview of April 04: Barry Friedman On his book The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution

Cover Interview of May 30: Robert Pells On his book Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Cover Interview of May 25: Matthew Kahn On his book Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future

Cover Interview of May 22: Allan Hutchinson On his book Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World

Cover Interview of May 18: Nicholas Dungan On his book Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father

Cover Interview of May 16: Michael O’Riley On his book Cinema in an Age of Terror: North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History

Cover Interview of May 11: Donald Lopez On his book The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography

Cover Interview of May 09: Stephen Schryer On his book Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II U.S. Fiction

Cover Interview of May 04: David Carter On his book Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment

Cover Interview of May 02: Judith Keene On her book Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio During World War Two

Cover Interview of June 29: Niobe Way On her book Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection

Cover Interview of June 27: Charles Clotfelter On his book Big-Time Sports in American Universities

Cover Interview of June 22: Harry Collins On his book Gravity’s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century

Cover Interview of June 20: Seo-Young Chu On her book Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation

Cover Interview of June 15: Mary Norton On her book Separated by their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World

Cover Interview of June 13: Lydia Liu On her book The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious

Cover Interview of June 08: Thomas Schaeper On his book Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy

Cover Interview of June 06: Stuart Banner On his book American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own

Cover Interview of June 01: Ian Goldin On his book Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

Cover Interview of July 27: Darrell Duffie On his book How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It

Cover Interview of July 25: Brent Stockwell On his book The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines

Cover Interview of July 20: Harriet Ritvo On her book Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History

Cover Interview of July 18: Sarah Maza On her book Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris

Cover Interview of July 13: Alexander Nagel On his book The Controversy of Renaissance Art

Cover Interview of July 11: William Egginton On his book In Defense of Religious Moderation

Cover Interview of July 06: Ann Blair On her book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

Cover Interview of July 04: Rachel Weiss On her book To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art

Cover Interview of August 31: Nezar AlSayyad On his book Cairo: Histories of a City

Cover Interview of August 29: Kathy Peiss On her book Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style

Cover Interview of August 24: Thuy Tu On her book The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and The Cultural Economy of Fashion

Cover Interview of August 21: Michael Neiberg On his book Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

Cover Interview of August 17: Keith Roberts On his book The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets

Cover Interview of August 15: Mark Anderson On his book Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America

Cover Interview of August 10: Sylvia Lavin On her book Kissing Architecture

Cover Interview of August 08: Youssef Cassis On his book Crises and Opportunities: The Shaping of Modern Finance

Cover Interview of August 03: Wendy Steiner On her book The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art

Cover Interview of August 01: David Zierler On his book The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment

Cover Interview of September 28: Joe Roman On his book Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act

Cover Interview of September 26: Carolyn Bronstein On her book Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976-1986

Cover Interview of September 21: Erich Gruen On his book Rethinking the Other in Antiquity

Cover Interview of September 19: R. Kelemen On his book Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union

Cover Interview of September 15: Wendy Brown On her book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Cover Interview of October 31: James Jacobs On his book Breaking the Devil’s Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters From the Mob

Cover Interview of October 27: Kathy Rudy On her book Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy

Cover Interview of October 26: Darrell Duffie The potential for large bank failures remains

Cover Interview of October 24: Barbara Will On her book Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

Cover Interview of October 21: Steven Nadler On his book A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Modern Age

Cover Interview of October 19: Wendy Goldman On her book Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia

Cover Interview of October 17: Philip Cerny On his book Rethinking World Politics: A Theory of Transnational Neopluralism

Cover Interview of October 14: William Egginton On the future of religious moderation

Cover Interview of October 12: Peter Laufer On his book Calexico: True Lives of the Borderlands

Cover Interview of October 10: Barry McCrea On his book In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust

Cover Interview of October 07: Imani Perry On her book More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States

Cover Interview of October 05: Sharon Haar On her book The City As Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago

Cover Interview of October 03: Noah Horowitz On his book Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market

Cover Interview of November 30: Jane Park On her book Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema

Cover Interview of November 28: Mia Bloom On her book Bombshell: Women and Terrorism

Cover Interview of November 25: E. Zehr On his book Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine

Cover Interview of November 23: Leslie Thiele On his book Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World

Cover Interview of November 21: Hal Foster On his book The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha

Cover Interview of November 18: Matthew Kahn Will poor nations suffer greatly from climate change?

Cover Interview of November 16: Nancy Stepan On her book Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?

Cover Interview of November 14: Michael Roth On his book Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past

Cover Interview of November 09: Teofilo Ruiz On his book The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization

Cover Interview of November 08: Brian Boyd On his book Stalking Nabokov

Cover Interview of November 07: Alex Rosenberg On his book The Atheist's Guide to Reality

Cover Interview of November 04: Richard McNally On the roots of mental pathologies

Cover Interview of November 02: Joe Roman On ecological economics

Cover Interview of December 29: David Bates On his book States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political

Cover Interview of December 26: Ivor Hume On his book BELZONI: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate

Cover Interview of December 23: Keith Wrightson On his book Ralph Tailor’s Summer

Cover Interview of December 21: Philip Cerny What’s on my mind

Cover Interview of December 19: Elliot Wolfson On his book A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination

Cover Interview of December 14: Alex Rosenberg Why understanding science is hard and seduction by the humanities is easy

Cover Interview of December 12: Kathryn Sikkink On her book The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

Cover Interview of December 09: Tonio Andrade On his book Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West

Cover Interview of December 07: Randolph Roth On the ultimate causes of various kinds of homicide

Cover Interview of December 05: Owen Flanagan On his book The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized

Cover Interview of December 02: Russell Rumberger On his book Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It

Cover Interview of January 29: Robert Sullivan On his book Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power

Cover Interview of January 27: Trysh Travis On her book A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey

Cover Interview of January 25: Roger Ekirch On his book The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped

Cover Interview of January 22: Philip Pomper On his book The Origins of the October Revolution

Cover Interview of January 19: Kelly Oliver On her book Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human

Cover Interview of January 18: Bryant Simon On his book Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks

Cover Interview of January 15: Alan Goldman On his book Transforming Toxic Leaders

Cover Interview of January 12: Kay Heath On her book Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain

Cover Interview of January 11: Joseph Margolis On his book The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology

Cover Interview of January 08: Henry Giroux On his book Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?

Cover Interview of January 06: Joyce Appleby On her book The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

Cover Interview of January 04: Joanna Merwood-Salisbury On her book Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City

Cover Interview of January 01: Dan Reiter On his book How Wars End

Cover Interview of February 26: Patrick Allitt On his book The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

Cover Interview of February 24: Joshua Clover On his book 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About

Cover Interview of February 22: Marc Egnal On his book Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War

Cover Interview of February 19: Jan Birksted On his book Le Corbusier and the Occult

Cover Interview of February 17: John Protevi On his book Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic

Cover Interview of February 15: Mark Manger On his book Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South

Cover Interview of February 12: Catherine Cole On her book Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Stages of Transition

Cover Interview of February 10: Pablo Piccato On his book The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere

Cover Interview of February 08: Kevin Mattson On his book What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?”: Jimmy Carter, America’s “Malaise,” and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country

Cover Interview of February 05: Stephen DeStefano On his book Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia

Cover Interview of February 03: Jonathan Walker On his book Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy

Cover Interview of February 01: Gary Francione On his book Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

Cover Interview of March 31: Steven Hill On his book Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age

Cover Interview of March 29: Alice Echols On her book Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

Cover Interview of March 26: Henry Petroski On his book The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

Cover Interview of March 24: Giorgio Bertellini On his book Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque

Cover Interview of March 22: Peter Paik On his book From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe

Cover Interview of March 19: Beth Bailey On her book America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force

Cover Interview of March 17: Laurie Maguire On her book Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood

Cover Interview of March 15: Laura Trombley On her book Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years

Cover Interview of March 12: Kenneth Pinnow On his book Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929

Cover Interview of March 10: Jeff Allred On his book American Modernism and Depression Documentary

Cover Interview of March 08: Eric Gordon On his book The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google

Cover Interview of March 05: Moshik Temkin On his book The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial

Cover Interview of March 03: Kirk Savage On his book Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape

Cover Interview of March 01: Ana Siljak On her book Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination

Cover Interview of April 30: Timothy Morton On his book The Ecological Thought

Cover Interview of April 28: Richard Immerman On his book Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz

Cover Interview of April 26: Claude Fischer On his book Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character

Cover Interview of April 23: Peter Wilson On his book The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy

Cover Interview of April 21: Bruce Gordon On his book Calvin

Cover Interview of April 19: Daniel Bodansky On his book The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law

Cover Interview of April 16: Andrew Walder On his book Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement

Cover Interview of April 14: Erin Manning On her book Fractured Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy

Cover Interview of April 12: Jack Censer On his book On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media

Cover Interview of April 09: Hobson Woodward On his book A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Cover Interview of April 07: Richard Lebow On his book Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations

Cover Interview of April 05: Joshua Shannon On his book The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City

Cover Interview of April 02: Mark Swislocki On his book Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai

Cover Interview of May 31: Robert Alter On his book American Prose and the King James Bible

Cover Interview of May 23: Enda Duffy On his book The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

Cover Interview of May 17: Seth Lerer On his book Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter

Cover Interview of May 10: Adrian Johns On his book Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Cover Interview of May 07: Kathryn Jacob On her book King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward,Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age

Cover Interview of May 05: Dalia Judovitz On her book Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company

Cover Interview of May 03: George Cotkin On his book Morality’s Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America

Cover Interview of June 28: Bruce Boehrer On his book Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature

Cover Interview of June 20: Garry Runciman On his book Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto

Cover Interview of June 14: Jerry Muller On his book Capitalism and the Jews

Cover Interview of June 07: Heather Richardson On her book Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

Cover Interview of July 26: Roland Burke On his book Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights

Cover Interview of July 19: Deirdre Barrett On her book Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose

Cover Interview of July 12: Howard Gillette On his book Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

Cover Interview of July 05: Maurice Samuels On his book Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France

Cover Interview of August 29: Randolph Roth On his book American Homicide

Cover Interview of August 23: Melinda Blau On her and Karen Fingerman's book Consequential Strangers: Turning Everyday Connections Into Life-Changing Moments

Cover Interview of August 16: Larry Wolff On his book The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

Cover Interview of August 09: Tony Whyton On his book Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition

Cover Interview of August 02: Andrew Herscher On his book Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict

Cover Interview of September 27: John Calvert On his book Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

Cover Interview of September 20: Gary Stuart On his book Innocent Until Interrogated: The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four

Cover Interview of September 13: Elizabeth Fay On her book Fashioning Faces:The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

Cover Interview of September 06: Edward Barbier On his book A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery

Cover Interview of October 26: Roger Backhouse On his book The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology

Cover Interview of October 25: Samuel Moyn On his book The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

Cover Interview of October 20: Frank Dikötter On his book Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962

Cover Interview of October 18: Federico Finchelstein On his book Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945

Cover Interview of October 13: George Packard On his book Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan

Cover Interview of October 11: Mark Taylor On his book Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

Cover Interview of October 06: Lynn Morgan On her book Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos

Cover Interview of October 04: Richard Lebow On his book Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War

Cover Interview of November 29: Timothy Snyder On his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Cover Interview of November 24: E. Atkins On his book Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945

Cover Interview of November 22: Paula Lupkin On her book Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture

Cover Interview of November 17: Lynn Stout On her book Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People

Cover Interview of November 14: Alan Taylor On his book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies

Cover Interview of November 10: Marcus Boon On his book In Praise of Copying

Cover Interview of November 08: Pamela Wojcik On her book The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

Cover Interview of November 03: Norman Naimark On his book Stalin’s Genocides

Cover Interview of November 01: David Courtwright On his book No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America

Cover Interview of December 29: Jeffrey Alexander On his book The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

Cover Interview of December 26: Newstok and Thompson On their co-edited book Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance

Cover Interview of December 22: Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly On her book Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present

Cover Interview of December 20: Ran Hirschl On his book Constitutional Theocracy

Cover Interview of December 14: Ann Fabian On her book The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead

Cover Interview of December 13: Edward Berenson On his book Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa

Cover Interview of December 08: Adrian Johns On his book Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age

Cover Interview of December 06: Robert Smith On his book Conservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same

Cover Interview of December 01: Larry Bennett On his book The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism

Cover Interview of January 30: Steven Nadler On his book The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

Cover Interview of January 26: Kieran Egan On his book The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up

Cover Interview of January 22: Ariella Azoulay On her book The Civil Contract of Photography

Cover Interview of January 20: Mark Fenster On his book Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition)

Cover Interview of January 15: Jeffrey Lockwood On his book Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Cover Interview of January 13: Nicholas Weber On his book Le Corbusier: A Life

Cover Interview of January 09: Kristen Whissel On her book Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and Silent Cinema

Cover Interview of January 06: Harold Luft On his book Total Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis

Cover Interview of January 02: Henry Petroski On his book The Toothpick: Technology and Culture

Cover Interview of February 27: Louis Kaplan On his book The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer

Cover Interview of February 24: Thomas Nichols On his book Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War

Cover Interview of February 20: Michael Long On his book Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media

Cover Interview of February 17: Juliann Sivulka On her book Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy

Cover Interview of February 13: Despina Stratigakos On her book A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City

Cover Interview of February 10: Benjamin Hett On his book Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand

Cover Interview of February 06: David Livingstone On his book Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins

Cover Interview of February 03: John Ehrenfeld On his book Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming our Consumer Culture

Cover Interview of March 31: Antoni Kapcia On his book Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the Fifties

Cover Interview of March 27: Robert Engelman On his book More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want

Cover Interview of March 24: Robert Tubbs On his book What is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins

Cover Interview of March 20: Sarah Schrank On her book Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles

Cover Interview of March 17: Wendy Chun On her book Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics

Cover Interview of March 13: Donald Lopez On his book Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed

Cover Interview of March 10: Jonathan Burgess On his book The Death and Afterlife of Achilles

Cover Interview of March 06: Carole Levin On her book Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture

Cover Interview of March 03: Louis Perez On his book Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos

Cover Interview of April 27: Ian Almond On his book Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe’s Battlegrounds

Cover Interview of April 24: Ian Worthington On his book Philip II of Macedonia

Cover Interview of April 21: Yaron Peleg On his book Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance

Cover Interview of April 17: Susanne Freidberg On her book A Perishable History

Cover Interview of April 14: Laura Belmonte On her book Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War

Cover Interview of April 10: Bernard Mergen On his book Weather Matters: An American Cultural History since 1900

Cover Interview of April 07: Stan Ulanski On his book The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic

Cover Interview of April 03: Daniel Varisco On his book Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid

Cover Interview of May 29: Jennifer Scanlon On her book Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown

Cover Interview of May 27: E. Zehr On his book Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero

Cover Interview of May 25: Cormac O Gráda On his book Famine: A Short History

Cover Interview of May 22: Richard Bronk On his book The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics

Cover Interview of May 20: Gary Steiner On his book Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

Cover Interview of May 18: Nicholas Bloom On his book Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century

Cover Interview of May 15: Thomas Bisson On his book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government

Cover Interview of May 13: Don Lincoln On his book The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider

Cover Interview of May 11: Lawrence Rothfield On his book The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum

Cover Interview of May 08: Miles Ogborn On his book Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800

Cover Interview of May 06: Mark Golden On his book Greek Sport and Social Status

Cover Interview of May 04: Eric Ames On his book Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments

Cover Interview of May 01: Shane Hamilton On his book Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy

Cover Interview of June 29: Mary Stuckey On her book Jimmy Carter,Human Rights,and the National Agenda

Cover Interview of June 26: Paul Gootenberg On his book Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug

Cover Interview of June 24: Dan Immergluck On his book Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market

Cover Interview of June 22: Shirley Warshaw On her book The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney

Cover Interview of June 19: Sharon Krause On her book Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation

Cover Interview of June 17: Alan Braddock On his book Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity

Cover Interview of June 15: Alfonso Quiroz On his book Corrupt Circles: A History of Unbound Graft in Peru

Cover Interview of June 12: Peter Conn On his book The American 1930s: A Literary History

Cover Interview of June 10: Frederick Aldama On his book Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century

Cover Interview of June 08: Abraham Lowenthal On his book Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge

Cover Interview of June 05: Frank Dikötter On his book The Age of Openness: China before Mao

Cover Interview of June 03: Jerry King On his book Mathematics in 10 Lessons: The Grand Tour

Cover Interview of June 01: Robert Burns On his book The Death of the American Trial

Cover Interview of July 31: Nancy Rosenblum On her book On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship

Cover Interview of July 29: Mary Ryan On her book Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History

Cover Interview of July 27: Farzana Shaikh On her book Making Sense of Pakistan

Cover Interview of July 24: Paul Fleming On his book Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism

Cover Interview of July 22: Christopher Eisgruber On his book The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process

Cover Interview of July 20: Randall Mason On his book The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City

Cover Interview of July 17: John Kricher On his book The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth

Cover Interview of July 15: Roger Karapin On his book Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right since the 1960s

Cover Interview of July 13: Ken Alder On his book The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession

Cover Interview of July 10: Stephen Cohen On his book Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War

Cover Interview of July 08: Ronald Fritze On his book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions

Cover Interview of July 06: Ann Stock On her book On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition

Cover Interview of July 03: Jann Pasler On her book Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France

Cover Interview of July 01: Walter McMahon On his book Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education

Cover Interview of August 31: Nancy Bentley On her book Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920

Cover Interview of August 28: Ayelet Shachar On her book The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality

Cover Interview of August 26: Cliff Edwards On his book Mystery of the Night Café: Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent Van Gogh

Cover Interview of August 24: Karen Newman On her book Essaying Shakespeare

Cover Interview of August 21: Torben Grodal On his book Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotions, Culture, and Film

Cover Interview of August 19: Anne Dunlop On her book Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy

Cover Interview of August 17: Sarah Babb On her book Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations

Cover Interview of August 14: Rob King On his book The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture

Cover Interview of August 12: Gary Okihiro On his book Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones

Cover Interview of August 10: Alex Vernon On his book On Tarzan

Cover Interview of August 07: Lynne Isbell On her book The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well

Cover Interview of August 05: Chad Heap On his book Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Cover Interview of August 03: Lewis Siegelbaum On his book Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile

Cover Interview of September 30: Jeffrey Ogbar On his book Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap

Cover Interview of September 28: Barbara Penner On her book Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America

Cover Interview of September 25: Mabel Berezin On her book Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe

Cover Interview of September 23: Brian Boyd On his book On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

Cover Interview of September 21: Jennifer Lind On her book Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics

Cover Interview of September 18: Jerome Kagan On his book The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century

Cover Interview of September 16: Valeria Sobol On her book Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination

Cover Interview of September 13: Ramón Soto-Crespo On his book Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

Cover Interview of September 11: Michael Kimmage On his book The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism

Cover Interview of September 09: Stephen Prince On his book Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism

Cover Interview of September 07: Mark McGurl On his book The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

Cover Interview of September 04: David Powers On his book Muhammad is Not the Father of any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet

Cover Interview of September 02: Charlie Hailey On his book Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space

Cover Interview of October 30: Mark Taylor On his book Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living

Cover Interview of October 28: Peter Wells On his book Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered (now in paperback

Cover Interview of October 25: Lawrence Glickman On his book Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America

Cover Interview of October 23: George Saliba On his book Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

Cover Interview of October 21: Lynne Weikart On her book Follow the Money: Who Controls New York City Mayors?

Cover Interview of October 19: Matthew Hilton On his book Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization

Cover Interview of October 16: Monica Miller On her book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

Cover Interview of October 14: William Harris On his book Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity

Cover Interview of October 12: Josh Lerner On his book Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It

Cover Interview of October 09: Mike Hulme On his book Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

Cover Interview of October 07: Barry Seldes On his book Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician

Cover Interview of October 05: Marnia Lazreg On her book Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women

Cover Interview of October 02: Serena Zabin On her book Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York

Cover Interview of November 30: Philip Goodchild On his book Theology of Money

Cover Interview of November 27: Toby Talbot On her book The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies

Cover Interview of November 25: Philippe Rochat On his book Others in Mind: Social Origins of Self-Consciousness

Cover Interview of November 23: Gregory Koblentz On his book Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security

Cover Interview of November 20: Nancy Um On her book The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port

Cover Interview of November 18: John Burnham On his book Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age

Cover Interview of November 16: Ann Keller On her book Science in Environmental Policymaking: The Politics of Objective Advice

Cover Interview of November 13: Andre Wakefield On his book The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice

Cover Interview of November 11: Carol Becker On her book Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production

Cover Interview of November 09: Harold James On his book The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle

Cover Interview of November 06: Greg Robinson On his book A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America

Cover Interview of November 04: Bethany Moreton On her book To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

Cover Interview of November 02: Eric Posner On his book The Perils of Global Legalism

Cover Interview of December 30: Amanda Goodall On her book Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars

Cover Interview of December 28: William Egginton On his book The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)baroque Aesthetics

Cover Interview of December 24: Wafaa Bilal On his book Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun (with Kari Lydersen)

Cover Interview of December 23: Monika Zagar On her book Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance

Cover Interview of December 21: Ian Almond On his book History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche

Cover Interview of December 18: Robert Hegel On his book True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories

Cover Interview of December 16: Sharon Zukin On her book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

Cover Interview of December 14: Eli Berman On his book Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism

Cover Interview of December 11: Jennifer Barker On her book The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience

Cover Interview of December 09: Deborah Cohen On her book Household Gods: The British and their Possessions

Cover Interview of December 06: Sibyl Schwarzenbach On her book On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State

Cover Interview of December 04: Jeannie Suk On her book At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy

Cover Interview of December 02: Thomas Wheatland On his book The Frankfurt School in Exile

Cover Interview of December 30: Steven Stoll On his book The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth

Cover Interview of December 26: Krin Gabbard On his book Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture

Cover Interview of December 23: Dana Nelson On her book Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People

Cover Interview of December 19: Robert Gildea On his book Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914

Cover Interview of December 16: Thomas Dumm On his book Loneliness as a Way of Life

Cover Interview of December 05: Benjamin Ginsberg On his book The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables

Cover Interview of December 05: M. Durham On her book The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do about It

Cover Interview of December 05: Tyler Volk On his book CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge

Cover Interview of December 05: John Stauffer On his book GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Cover Interview of December 05: Timothy Brennan On his book Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz