Nina Ayoub was books editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Stories by This Author
The Review
This upstart publisher wants to open Canadians’ eyes to their nation’s history.
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A State Department bureaucrat of the early 20th century drew up a forerunner of the No Fly List, raising the same constitutional issues then as we face now.
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A historian fleshes out the life of Nuremberg’s master executioner four centuries ago.
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Astronauts’ experiences, theologians’ pronouncements, and churches in space-enclave communities all factor in to a new cultural history.
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The sociologist who wrote “What’s Wrong With Fat?” is more interested in the question than in the answer.
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Independent films and their relentless social critique have found an observer in Sherry Ortner.
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A neuroscientist finds that his research on the mind echoes intuitions expressed by the late writer.