Book Review
Anthropology from the inside: New Indigenous scholarship from Brazil in translation
June 4, 2025The goal of the book is to make people aware of and to value the Indigenous experience of the Brazilian population.
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Marxism without Communists? Losurdo’s ‘Western Marxism’ misses the forest for the trees
May 29, 2025Instead of serving up a clear catalogue of the revisionism and opportunism, Domenico Losurdo’s work actually muddies the waters further.
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Edward Said has said his last word—on opera
May 12, 2025Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was an astute scholar of music and a classically trained pianist whose publications include Musical Elaborations and Music at the Limits.
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Book review: ‘B-52 Down! The Night the Bombs Fell From the Sky’
May 7, 2025A story about a community-wide effort to overcome the odds to help the crew and get answers in the wake of a B-52 crash in their town.
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Darkest L.A.: Film Noir, Greed, and Corporate Graft in LaLa Land
April 16, 2025Five novels, five industries: New course examines how the postwar period set the tone for L.A.’s current reality of a vast income disparity, a crisis in housing, and frequent “natural,” though totally avoidable, disasters.
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