The Mysteries of Adam Smith

How to understand Adam Smith’s politics

Glory Liu

Where Solidarity, Abolition, and Queer History Meet

Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison makes a compelling case for abolition as a central part of queer politics.

Naomi Gordon-Loebl

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Ayesha Raees

The Secret Powers of William Klein

Using the street as his studio, he did more than just freeze a time and place in one frame. His photographs captured the world in motion.

Barry Schwabsky

Peter Weiss and the Riddle of Representation

His painterly fictions strive against language’s limitations to accurately describe the world in all its horror and randomness.

Natasha Boyd

In Filipino Politics, What Is Fact and What Is Fiction?

A novel by Miguel Syjuco, I Was the President’s Mistress!!, deconstructs the spectacle of celebrity, corruption, and polyphony that defines the nation’s political contests.

Bryony Lau

“El Gran Movimiento” Is a Masterful Portrait of Capitalism at Work

Kiro Russo’s new film takes us to La Paz, following unemployed miners, mystics, and others hoping to find solace in the shadow of a rotten economy.

Eli Rudavsky

Can Cuba’s Past Help Us Understand Its Future?

Ada Ferrer’s Cuba offers a capacious and wide-ranging history of the country’s centuries-old struggle to liberate itself from empire and economic upheaval.

Ed Morales

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Victoria Adukwei Bulley

What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator?

Hanna Bervoets’s novella We Had to Remove This Post attempts to get inside the mind of one the Internet’s frontline workers.

Joanne McNeil