Thomas Laqueur

Thomas Laqueur’s The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains is out now.

In the LRB Archive:

• Lynched for Drinking from a White Man’s Well · 11 October 2018

• Nothing Becomes Something: Pathography · 22 September 2016

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Devoted to Terror: How the Camps Were Run · 24 September 2015

  • KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann

• Some Damn Foolish Thing: Wrong Turn in Sarajevo · 5 December 2013

  • The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

• Why name a ship after a defeated race?: New Lives of the ‘Titanic’ · 24 January 2013

  • The Wreck of the ‘Titan’ by Morgan Robertson
  • Shadow of the ‘Titanic’ by Andrew Wilson
  • ‘Titanic’ 100th Anniversary Edition: A Night Remembered by Stephanie Barczewski
  • The Story of the Unsinkable ‘Titanic’: Day by Day Facsimile Reports by Michael Wilkinson and Robert Hamilton
  • ‘Titanic’ Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew by Richard Davenport-Hines
  • Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster
  • ‘Titanic’ Calling edited by Michael Hughes and Katherine Bosworth

• Something Fine and Powerful: Pearl Harbor Redux · 25 August 2011

  • Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John Dower

• We Are All Victims Now: Trauma · 8 July 2010

  • The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood by Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman, translated by Rachel Gomme

• Among the Graves: Naming the Dead · 18 December 2008

  • The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction by Mark Neely
  • This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

• Lectures about Heaven: Forgiving Germany · 7 June 2007

  • Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern

• Diary: My Dead Fathers · 7 September 2006

• Unquiet Bodies: Burying the 20th Century · 6 April 2006

  • Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism by István Rév

• Four pfennige per track km: Adolf Eichmann and Holocaust photography · 4 November 2004

  • Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
  • Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence by Janina Struk

• Diary: memories in German · 4 December 2003

• Travelling in the Classic Style: Primo Levi · 5 September 2002

  • Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics by Robert Gordon
  • Primo Levi by Ian Thomson
  • The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography by Carole Angier

• 11 September · 4 October 2001

• In and Out of the Panthéon: funerals, politics and memory in France · 20 September 2001

  • Funerals, Politics and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996 by Avner Ben-Amos
  • Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Siècle France by Neil McWilliam

• Festival of Punishment: On Death Row · 5 October 2000

  • Proximity to Death by William McFeely
  • Death Row: The Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment edited by Bonnie Bobit

• Pint for Pint: The Price of Blood · 14 October 1999

  • Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr

• Even Immortality: Medicomania · 29 July 1999

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter

• The Old Country: the troublesome marriage of Poles and Jews · 4 June 1998

  • Heshel's Kingdom by Dan Jacobson
  • Shtetl: The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished World by Eva Hoffman

• The Sound of Voices Intoning Names · 5 June 1997

  • French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld

• The Past’s Past · 19 September 1996

  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter

• Simply Doing It · 22 February 1996

  • The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain 1650-1950 by Roy Porter and Lesley Hall

• Closing Time · 18 August 1994

  • How We Die by Sherwin Nuland

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