Iran’s prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the... Read more »
“Citizen Darfour went to the House of Commons and presented a brief intended to destroy our institutions and upset the state …”—Le Télégraphe, gazette officielle extraordinaire, 1 September 1822 It is... Read more »
Haitian sovereignty is everywhere in a 1964 painting by the Haitian painter Pauleus Vital. Born in Jacmel in 1918 and active during the late 1960s through his death in the 1980s, Vital... Read more »
In November 1803, in Saint-Domingue, the Armée indigène, or Indigenous Army, defeated Napoléon’s expeditionary troops and founded the world’s first Black nation in the Americas. On the ashes of this former French... Read more »
Manuscripts and books belonging to CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien – creators of two of the most popular fantasy worlds in literary history – are among the cultural objects being made available... Read more »
Public Books and the Sydney Review of Books have partnered to exchange a series of articles with international concerns. Today’s article, “Sublime Neutrality,” by Ursula Robinson-Shaw, was originally published by the SRB on July 10,... Read more »
The poems in Jason Sommer’s Portulans are charged with a muted tension, often relinquishing themselves into resigned tenderness and sighs that are less sighs of relief at the end of a journey... Read more »