The Gift of Slam Poetry

A short history of a misunderstood literary genre and the world it created.

Joshua Bennett

The World According to Anna Badkhen

A conversation with the journalist about borders, birthplaces, reporting from conflict zones, and her recent book, Bright Unbearable Reality. 

Lucas Iberico Lozada

What’s Life Like for the Child of a Psychoanalyst?

Alice Wexler’s The Analyst explores the complicated life of her father, Milton Wexler, whose work courted controversy in the public and within in his family

Alana Pockros

What “The Last of Us” Could Never Do

The HBO series exposed all the limits of video game adaptations.

Erin Schwartz

Ohio

Kim Addonizio

The Ghosts of the British Empire

In his new book Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera examines how the British Empire’s pieties and fictions persist to this day.

Priya Satia

C.L.R. James, Man of Paradox

A new biography examines the revolutionary possibilities and radical contradictions at the heart of James’s life and ideas.

Gerald Horne

Jenny Odell’s Search for a New Kind of Time

Can we escape capitalism’s persistent and relentless demand that we turning our waking hours into products and profits?

Sarah Jaffe

Emma Cline’s Novel of Pool Parties and Class Conflict

Full of suspense and subterfuge, The Guest turns a story about a summer on Long Island into a thriller about what it takes to survive.

Jennifer Wilson

The Liberal Discontents of Francis Fukuyama

“The End of History?” was more than just commentary; it was an announcement of victory. And yet, nearly a quarter-century later, its author remains unsure if liberalism truly won.

Daniel Bessner