Book Discussion

Lead illustration by Illustrations by Jan Feindt for The Chronicle article "Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige" by Charles Kingllustrations by Jan Feindt for The Chronicle

Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige

The Chronicle Review

How the misadventures of Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson shaped anthropology. “A living room in Grantwood, N.J., has a good claim to being the birthplace, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, of a new science of humankind. Amid the demands of advising and fund-raising, the chair of the Columbia University anthropology department,…

View of the sea in Odessa

Odessa Q&A

Charles King Speaks About his Book This is a book about a city in Ukraine, a country that few people know much about. Why did you write it? The book has a mystery story at its core: how a cosmopolitan city of many nationalities and religions managed to thrive for so long but then nearly…