Is Antitrust Enough? Is Antitrust Enough?
Tim Wu’s Age of Extraction lays out an antitrust strategy for fighting platform capitalism. But does the challenge posed by Big Tech require a new playbook?
May 14, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Michael Eby
Claire Denis’s Haunting Neocolonial Drama Claire Denis’s Haunting Neocolonial Drama
Compared to her other films, The Fence is a minor work. But it contains within it a set of expansive themes.
May 13, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Lovia Gyarkye
The Radical Genius of Álvaro Enrigue The Radical Genius of Álvaro Enrigue
His new novel is as much a work of political philosophy as it is one of fiction.
May 12, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Nicolás Medina Mora
Capitalism’s Long Revolution Capitalism’s Long Revolution
What happens to our understanding of capitalism when we assume that it might not come to an end?
May 11, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
Robert Coover at Bat Robert Coover at Bat
The postmodern writer's 1968 baseball novel is strange and poignant—a work of fiction that ultimately argues for the vitality of fiction itself.
May 7, 2026 / Books & the Arts / John Semley
A Louisiana Private School’s All-American Grift A Louisiana Private School’s All-American Grift
In Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises, two reporters uncovered a high school scandal that puts into relief the unfinished work of integration.
May 6, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Kristen Martin
A Climate Change Novel That Questions Everything A Climate Change Novel That Questions Everything
In God and Sex, Jon Raymond has recontextualized timeless novelistic questions—on faith and love—in an era of environmental collapse.
Apr 30, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Jessica Swoboda
Are Magazines Failing to Cover the New World Order? Are Magazines Failing to Cover the New World Order?
A conversation with Gavin Jacobson, one of the founding editors of Equator, a new publication that is trying to make sense of the world after the West.
Apr 29, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins