rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Feb. 5th, 2020 01:05 pm)
Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity: what are you into? )
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution: short and mostly bitter )

Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China:  good read )
Hidetaka Hirota, Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the 19th-Century Origins of American Immigration Policyfirst time as tragedy )
Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identitywho are you? )
Timothy C. Winegard, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predatornope )
Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600 – 1947Prussian blues )
Christian Picciolini, Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremismformer white supremacist tries to make amends )
Literally unbelievable. I learned my lesson about sharing Onion stories without very clear labeling years ago, when I posted a link about a (fake) ridiculous trademark claim and some foreign students took it literally. And I don't blame them--this is America; who knows what weirdness the law is capable of?

The Iliad as fanfic. (I like that framing better than “Odyssey fanfic,” because the former pushes the canon out into some further distance, and also because this particular piece seems to me a very in-the-present-moment style, very much “how we are writing fanfic now.”)
visual culture, cultures of war, Japanese occupation, Lincoln and slavery )
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