Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section.
Madeline:
Henrik Bering, “The master propagandist” (New Criterion)
Alex Burghart, “Women and the Somme” (TLS Blog)
Cecilia D’Anastasio, “VR Has Its Roots in Ancient Rome” (Kotaku)
Tom Holland, “Battle Royal” (TLS)
John:
Evgeny Buntman (Sean Guillory, trans.), “Stalin’s orders, the Politburo’s decisions, and the Social Revolutionaries” (Meduza)
Nicolas Duvoux, « La possibilité des révolutions : Entretien avec Quentin Deluermoz et Laurent Jeanpierre » (La vie des idées)
William Eamon, “Six centuries of secularism” (Aeon)
Martin Ebel, »Studie über den Alltag unserer Demokratie« (Deutschlandrundfunk)
John Palatella (trans. Bela Shayevich), “Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices” (The Nation)
Tim Parks, “Between the Guelfs and the Ghibellines” (TLS)
Niccolò Scaffai, “Traduzioni d’autore” (Le parole e le cose)
Michele Spanò and Massimo Vallerani, “Come se. Yan Thomas e le politiche della finzione giuridica” (Le parole e le cose)
Dieter Thomä, »Soziologie mit der Stimmgabel« (Die Zeit)
Lorenzo Tomasin, “La dama col Canzoniere” (Il Sole 24 Ore)
And finally, in honor of Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a recording of the poet reading « Les Planches courbes » (courtesy of Farrar, Straus & Giroux; YouTube)
Emily:
Where Are We Now?: LRB contributors on Brexit (LRB)
Jeremy Harding, Short Cuts, on Brexit (LRB)
Nicole Longpré, How the British Far Right Went Mainstream (Dissent)
Alison Flood, Geoffrey Hill, ‘one of the greatest English poets’, dies aged 84 (Guardian)
Christopher L. Brown, In America’s Long History of Slavery, New England Shares the Guilt (NYT)
Mary Beard, You May Now Turn Over Your Papers (BBC Radio 4)
Erin:
HathiTrust at U-M, NFB to make 14+ million books available to blind and print-disabled users (HathiTrust)
Terry Southern, “The Art of Screenwriting” (Paris Review)
Jonathan Dixon, “Writer Rudy Wurlitzer’s Unappreciated Masterpieces” (Vice)
Jeremy Harding, “The Theater of Aspiration” (LRB video)
Thomas Hardy, “Tess of d’Urbervilles” (Penguin, Signet Classic edition)
Carol J. Oja, “Beyoncé: Many Things All at Once” (TLS)
Simon Walton, “15cV The 15cBooktrade Visualization Suite” (Video, Vimeo)
Brooke:
Kristen Evans, “We’ve Got Nothing to Lose: Emily Books is Disrupting Publishing as Usual” (Brooklyn Mag)
Esperanza Fonseca, “Why We Can’t Allow the State to Set the Agenda for Our Liberation” ([Black Girl Dangerous])
Sarah Frostenson, “Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are 2 of 728 Americans that police killed this year” (Vox)
Nick Ripatrazone, “Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia” (Lit Hub)
Kit Steinkellner, “Alice Walker Wrote a Poem About Jesse Williams and His Powerful BET Speech” (Vulture)
Jake:
Jeanne-Marie Jackson “Farewell to Pnin: The End of the Comp Lit Era” (3 A.M. Magazine)
Christopher Jones, “The Deadly War of Ideas” (Gates of Nineveh)
Brianna Nofil, “In the 1920s, the Now-Forgotten Flood of ‘Girl Mayors’ Became the Face of Feminism” (Atlas Obscura)
Carolyn:
Carly Carioli, “Did the Star-Spangled Banner Land Stravinsky in Jail?” (The Boston Globe)
Alexander Keefe, “Colors/Army Green” (Cabinet Magazine)
Bee Wilson, “What Brexit Means for British Food” (The New Yorker)