Rethinking the Science of Skin
What is all the scrubbing, soaping, moisturizing, and deodorizing really doing for the body’s largest organ?
July 27, 2020
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Must I Go,” “Empire of Wild,” “Character,” and “The Vapors.”
July 27, 2020
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Stranger in the Shogun’s City,” “The Turnaway Study,” “Hamnet,” and “Interlibrary Loan.”
July 13, 2020
The Argument of “Afropessimism”
Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.
July 13, 2020
What Happens When David Mitchell Writes a Rock Novel?
A conventional story of a band’s rise turns into a book on another plane entirely.
June 29, 2020
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Humankind,” “Scandinavian Noir,” “Blue Ticket,” and “Seeing the Body.”
June 29, 2020
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Death in Her Hands,” “The Taste of Sugar,” “Prophetic City,” and “The Price of Peace.”
June 22, 2020
Frank Kameny’s Orderly, Square Gay-Rights Activism
An astronomer for the Army Map Service was an unlikely, but crucial, combatant for erotic freedom.
June 22, 2020
Revisiting Mengele’s Malignant “Race Science”
The study of Nazis still offers moral instruction on how evil arises.
June 15, 2020
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Lincoln on the Verge,” “The Shapeless Unease,” “A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth,” and “Clean Hands”
June 15, 2020