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:
Suzanne Koven, “On Desire and Disease” (LARB)
Eimear McBride, “‘It gets people killed’: Osip Mandelstam and the perils of writing poetry under Stalin” (New Statesman)
Catherine Merridale, “Living, eating and dreaming revolution” (New Statesman)
Priyamvada Natarajan, “Calculating Women” (NYRB)
Robert O. Darnton, “A Parliament of Owls” (NYRB)
 
Cynthia:
Dan Fox, “Signs of the Times: Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale” (Frieze)
Madeleine Thien, “The Land in Winter” (Granta)
Hannah Black, “Review: We Wanted a Revolution” (4Columns)
Kellie Jones and LaToya Ruby Frazier, “The Unfinished Work of the Civil Rights Movement” (Aperture)
 
Emily:
LD Burnett, In the Books (USIH)
Zachary Bampton, Do You Speak Princetonian? The Language of Princeton (Mudd Manuscript Library Blog), an interesting slice of 19th-century American college life
Andrew Hartman, To the Finland Station (USIH)
Jacob Mikanowski, Goodbye, Eastern Europe! (LARB)
 
Sarah:
Kevin B. Anderson, ‘Slavery, War, and Revolution,’ (Jacobin)
Emile Chabal, ‘Les intellectuels et la crise de la démocratie,’ (Pouvoirs)
Nelson Lichtenstein, ‘Judith Stein, 1940-2017,’ (Dissent)
Christoph Menk, interviewed by Thomas Assheuer, ‘Unsere Zerrissenheit ist doch das Beste an der Moderne, was wir haben!’  (zeitonline)
Samuel Moyn, Thomas Pink, John Finnis, Lorenzo Zucca, ‘Symposium of Christian Human Rights,’ (King’s Law Journal)
 
Derek:
Alex Tizon, “My Family’s Slave” (The Atlantic)
Fresh Air (Podcast), “A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America” (with author Richard Rothstein)
Stephen Kantrowitz, “Refuge for Fugitives” (Boston Review)
 
Mike:
Andreas Klein, Zwischen Grenzbegriff und absoluter Metapher. Hans Blumenbergs Absolutismus der Wirklichkeit (Ergon, 2017)
Martin Burckhardt, Eine kleine Geschichte der Digitalisierung (Merkur)
Peter Ackroyd, The Romantics – Nature (BBC documentary)
Roman Bucheli, Wir rühren uns – mit Flügelschlägen. Rilke in Russland (NZZ)
Roland Reuß, Engagierte Pfadfinder. Bei Kieser in Schwetzingen [portrait of a famous bookstore near Heidelberg] (boersenblatt.net)