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FictionNovember 16, 2022
Michelle de Kretser’s Unsettled Australia
Her novels examine how migration and globalization have changed the country’s identity and relation to the rest of the world.
Nawal Arjini
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Gender and SexualitySeptember 30, 2021
Desire in Our Times: A Conversation With Amia Srinivasan
An interview with the philosopher about her new book, The Right to Sex, the need for more internationalist feminism, the politics of consent, and much more.
Nawal Arjini
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MusicMarch 15, 2021
How Black Women Musicians Defined What We Call Culture
A conversation with Daphne Brooks about her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution, a “counterhistory of popular music criticism.”
Nawal Arjini
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Racism and DiscriminationSeptember 24, 2020
Claudia Rankine Wants Us to Talk
A conversation with the writer about her new book, Just Us, which is a close reading of the language and affects that go into our understanding of race.
Nawal Arjini
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ActivismSeptember 2, 2020
For Tara Raghuveer, ‘Every Eviction Is an Act of Violence’
The director of the KC Tenants explains the radicalizing power of housing activism.
Nawal Arjini
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Housing and HomelessnessJuly 13, 2020
Defending One Brooklyn Brownstone Is Just the Beginning
Eviction blockades and neighbors coming together might be tenants’ best defense against landlords.
Nawal Arjini
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Science and HealthApril 6, 2020
Science Will Not Come on a White Horse With a Solution
Sheila Jasanoff, a professor of science and technology studies, tells The Nation that we’ve modeled the progression of the disease, but not the social consequences.
Nawal Arjini
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Journalists and JournalismMarch 25, 2020
Emily Nemens Talks Baseball and the Art of the Quarterly
With the baseball season delayed, the new book by the editor of The Paris Review, The Cactus League, is a salve for fans.
Nawal Arjini
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Books and IdeasJanuary 15, 2020
H.T. Tsiang, the Flâneur of Socialist Fiction
In the Chinese writer’s novels we are given a portrait of a New York City for the rich and the poor, the immigrant and the native-born, the newly homeless and the seasoned itinerant.
Nawal Arjini
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HistoryDecember 10, 2019
The West Does Not Have a Copyright on Justice
British scholar Priyamvada Gopal discusses the hidden histories of anticolonialism.
Nawal Arjini