Reactionary Democracy
Ben Margulies reviews a book that examines the complex politics of racism that is at play in some of the major democracies of the developed world.
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Being at Large
Sam Mickey reviews a book that interrogates freedom in the age of alternative facts.
HKRB Essays: The Long Goodbye
As the UK government signals a potential ‘path to citizenship’ to nearly 3 million potential Hong Kong BNOs, and Trump starts the process of revoking Hong Kong’s special treatment, journalist and cultural historian Stuart Walton reflects on public and private histories.
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
Historian Jeff Wasserstrom shares with Daniel C. Tsang his historically tempered observations about Hong Kong.
HKRB Essays: From Umbrella to Anti-Extradition
Emily Chow-Quesada reflects on the ongoing social unrest in Hong Kong.
Found in Transition
Ka-Lee Wong reviews an assessment of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Sasha Dovzhyk on the haunting banality of Europe’s biggest nuclear catastrophe.
I Have Become the Tide
As the Bharatiya Janata Party looks set to take a general election majority in an India increasingly hostile to minorities, Ragini Mohite reviews Githa Hariharan’s important novel on caste inequality and Dalit experience
