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September 29, 2022
Ken Burns Gets at the Nasty Underbelly of American History
David Nasaw in conversation with Jon Wiener on the new PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust.
Jon Wiener
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September 29, 2022
The Left Needs to Take Back the Constitution
A new book argues that the Constitution is best understood as a document calling for the unashamed struggle for equality.
Jay Swanson
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September 29, 2022
The Real Butt of Nathan Fielder’s Joke
His awkward social comedies always leave you wondering: Whom should you be laughing at?
Vikram Murthi
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September 28, 2022
Who Owns the Internet?
Ben Tarnoff’s history of networked life and the rise of a corporate-controlled web doubles as a polemic, arguing for a people-first Internet.
Evan Malmgren
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September 27, 2022
Hua Hsu’s Lesson in Friendship
His memoir Stay True is a moving portrait of friends, death, doubt, and everything in between.
Rosemarie Ho
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September 26, 2022
The Searching Poetry of Safia Elhillo
Her two poetry collections are rich with images of homeland, movement, history, and the future.
Yasmine Seale
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September 22, 2022
A Poet Confronts the Violent History of El Salvador
Christopher Soto’s Diaries of a Terrorist grapples with the the security ideology that shapes the Americas through poems that explore activism and resistance.
Danielle Mackey
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September 21, 2022
Imani Perry’s Capacious History of the South
While the South is often dismissed as a region catching up to the rest of the country, Perry’s new book demonstrates why it has always been the key to defining the promise and limits of American democracy.
Robert Greene II
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September 20, 2022
The Messy Politics of the NBA
Professional basketball finds itself at a crossroads—between its image as a do-gooder and a history of self-serving contradictions.
Jeremy Gordon
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September 19, 2022
Michelle Tea’s DIY Pregnancy
In her new book, Tea explores the difficulties of joys of getting pregnant and having a child.
Erin Somers