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October 14, 2021
New York City’s State of Permanent Crisis
How New Yorkers trying to ward off catastrophe paved the road to the privatized city.
Nick Juravich
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October 13, 2021
The Unsure State of Asian America
A conversation with Jay Caspian Kang about how the term “Asian American” became “mostly meaningless.”
Rosemarie Ho
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October 12, 2021
Virginie Despentes’s Philosophy of Rage
Her manifesto King Kong Theory presents a seductive yet contradictory vision of feminism.
Dilara O’Neil
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October 11, 2021
Someone Else’s Discomfort: On Gregg Bordowitz
How the writer, artist, and activist exposes what is fraught in masculinity.
Hua Hsu
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October 7, 2021
The Grotesque and Sublime Transformations of “Titane”
Julia Ducournau’s surreal horror film is a harrowing exploration of the body and technology.
Phoebe Chen
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October 6, 2021
Did the Constitution Pave the Way to Emancipation?
In his new book, The Crooked Path to Abolition, James Oakes argues that the Constitution was an antislavery document.
Richard Kreitner
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October 5, 2021
Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery
The historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.
Gerald Horne
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October 5, 2021
Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora
His posthumous collection Afterparties is part of a new wave of writing on the cultural memory and historical traumas of Southeast Asian immigrants.
Larissa Pham
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October 5, 2021
The Expansive Feminism of Jacqueline Rose
Rose’s latest book, On Violence and On Violence Against Women, is a rigorous and capacious study of contemporary gender politics and solidarity.
Cora Currier
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October 4, 2021
Do We Need to Work?
In Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, anthropologist James Suzman asks whether we might learn to live like our ancestors did—that is, to value free time over money.
Aaron Benanav