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April 18, 2023
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
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April 17, 2023
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
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April 17, 2023
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
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April 17, 2023
The Palo Alto System
Malcolm Harris’s new history of his hometown dispenses with the sentimental lore and examines how it has long been the seedbed for exploitation, chaos, and ecological degradation.
Jonathan Lethem
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April 13, 2023
The First Great Action Movie About Climate Justice?
A conversation with Daniel Goldhaber about adapting Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline into a politically-minded thriller.
Sam Russek
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April 12, 2023
The Banal Politics of “Extrapolations”
The new Apple TV series knows the world is going to shit but is uninterested in the kind of change needed to prevent this from happening.
Jorge Cotte
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April 11, 2023
The Biting Workplace Comedy of “Party Down”
Returning over a decade after it was originally canceled, the cult series remains a potent satire of meritocracy and Los Angeles.
Vikram Murthi
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April 10, 2023
Letting Go of the Border
In The Edge of the Plain, James Crawford explores the fragility of borders in a warming planet, and asks how we might challenge the violence they have come to represent.
Francis Wade
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April 6, 2023
St. Clair Bourne’s Cinema of Solidarity
The Black and the Green, which follows Black American activists who travel to Northern Ireland to learn from Irish allies, documents the necessary messiness of political organizing
Yasmina Price
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April 5, 2023
M. Night Shyamalan’s Strange Renaissance
After watching his latest, Knock at the Cabin, one can’t help but wonder: What is fueling his career revival?
Stephen Kearse