For historians of human enslavement—and for black Africans more generally—the recently concluded African Nations soccer cup revealed images of an ugliness that has roots in the Muslim world’s trans-Saharan slave trade. As Senegal defeated host Morocco in the final, sections of the Moroccan crowd hurled racial insults at the Senegalese—just as Algerian spectators had, earlier

Scott Galloway can be annoying. In his book, Notes on Being a Man, he admits as much. A serial entrepreneur, popular podcast host, and marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Galloway is also not especially humble, but age and the experience of raising two boys prompted him to revisit his own

REVIEW: ‘The Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America’ by Andy McPhee This book explores not death itself, but what remains after it: the human body. For most species, the dead simply decay where they fall. Humans, however, have long venerated their deceased, which explains the visceral disgust evoked by acts

Brian Raftery’s investigation of the serial killer, cannibal, gourmand, and pop cultural icon Hannibal Lecter is a very good book that sounds as if it should be a very bad one. When I first heard that Raftery, a respected entertainment journalist, was writing what purported to be a biography of Lecter, I both groaned and