On Photography

On PhotographyA new edition of Susan Sontags groundbreaking critique of photography its problems, politics, and possibilities. To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed, Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, which went on to influence generations of theorists, film critics, and readers everywhere. Originally published in the 1970s, her groundbreaking collection remains uncannily prescient and profoundly precise. With her singular

In a time when military occupations are emerging globally

where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination

to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice

He makes a nuanced philosophical case for why the application of these ideas to areas from education to public policy is proving to be so deeply counterproductive—and why universal

portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman

England and France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

In “The Pandemic

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East

with attention to how “sensitive” issues such as race

And this distribution insures its own survival

Asmaa Alghoul has continued to speak her truth

conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair