Ah, December! Crammed with holidays and short on sunlight, the month can be a lot to handle even in the best of times. So perhaps it's a relief that the publishing calendar all but peters out soon.

"Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution" -- or as we will call it for the remainder of this review, "Babel" -- was nothing short of extraordinary.

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There’s a scene in Craig Santos Perez’s book of poems from an unincorporated territory [åmot] that feels eerily familiar. The author, an English professor at the University of Hawaiʻi, is walking ...

My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to ...

More accurate data is readily available for Germany, which only became a colonial power at a very late stage. In the case of Germany, it is quite clear that the majority of the colonies were a ...