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.
Spencer:
“Twenty Questions with China Miéville” (TLS)
Peter Coates, “Rising High Water Blues” (TLS)
China Miéville, “Why does the Russian revolution matter?” (Guardian)
 
Emily:
Valerie Korineck, ‘After Stonewall’ and Gay and Lesbian Liberation in Western Canada (Notches)
Rebecca Futo Kennedy, We Condone it By Our Silence (Eidolon)
John Gallagher, Fear the fairies: Early Modern Sleepe (LRB)
Jim Marino, Questions for the Jedi Vice-Chair of Graduate Studies (McSweeneys)
 
Yitzchak:
Adam Gopnik, “We Could Have been Canada: Was the American Revolution Such a Good Idea?” (New Yorker)
Susan Dominus, “Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?” (New York Times Magazine)
Ai Weiwei, “How Censorship Works” (New York Times)
Jed Perl, “The Confidence Man of American Art” (on Robert Rauschenberg) (New York Review of Books)
 
Erin:
Ben Sisario, “Norton Records, Still Rocking, is Releasing a Lost Dion Album” (NYT)
William Grimes, “Billy Miller, Curator & Historian of Fringe Music, Dies at 62” (NYT)
Adam Shatz, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” (LRB)
Robert Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst (Penguin, 2016)
Robert Sapolsky, Human Behavioral Biology — this is a lecture series (25 hours!) published by Stanford on their YouTube channel. If you, like me, learn best as a listener, I highly recommend diving in.  If you’re looking for a quick intro to his work, Sapolsky’s public and academic lectures are widely available on YouTube. He was also a recent guest on the Daily Show.
 
Cynthia:
Jennifer Kabat, “The Fairytale” (Granta)
Anne Anlin Cheng, “The Ghost in the Ghost” (L.A. Review of Books)
Alice Spawls, “It’s Only in Painting that You Can Do Everything You Want: Hurvin Anderson speaks to Apollo” (Apollo)
Artur Walther and Okwui Enwezor, “Okwui Enwezor on the Recent Histories of African Photography” (Aperture)
 
Sarah
Dieter Grimm with Jürgen Kaube, ‘Ich hänge an der Demokratie/Not for the State’s but for Democracy’s Sake,’ ( wiko-berlin)Eddie S. Glaude Jr. with Cornel West, ‘Before Cornel West, After Cornel West’ with Cornel West,’ (AAS Podcast 21)
Jamie Martin and Maribel Morey, ‘Introduction,’ (Humanity Journal)
Samuel Moyn, ‘Restraining Populism,’ (First Things)
Angela Nagle, ‘The Market Theocracy,’ (Jacobin)
 
Eric:
William Deresiewicz, “In Defense of Facts” (The Atlantic).
Mariame Kaba, “Free Us All” (The New Inquiry).
Peter Kletsan, “Revolution and Restorative Justice: An Anarchist Perspective” (Abolition).
Martha Nussbaum, “Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame (2017 Jefferson Lecture)” (Humanities).
 
Derek:
Fresh Air (Podcast), “Largely Forgotten Osage Murders Reveal A Conspiracy Against Wealthy Native Americans”
Peter Coclanis, “Famine on Campus?” (The City Journal)
Isaac Chotiner, “How Should we remember the Confederacy?” (Slate)