The Visions of Alice Coltrane The Visions of Alice Coltrane
In the years after her husband John’s death, the harpist discovered a sound all her own, a jazz rooted in acts of spirit and will.
Mar 21, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
The Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies The Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies
Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.
Mar 20, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
How Unions Are Made How Unions Are Made
A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us not only the story of the United Farm Workers but also how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.
Mar 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Juan Ignacio Mora
Lucy Sante and the Solitude and Solidarity of Transitioning Lucy Sante and the Solitude and Solidarity of Transitioning
In her new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name, Sante dissects her past in order to understand her future.
Mar 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt
A Broadway Play’s Clumsy Intervention Into Antisemitism A Broadway Play’s Clumsy Intervention Into Antisemitism
Prayer for the French Republic is among a spate of recent dramas devoted to the precarity of Jewish life at the expense of solidarity.
Mar 14, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Black Punk Means Liberation Black Punk Means Liberation
The present and future of Black punk culture.
Mar 13, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Marc Bayard
What Happened to the 21st-Century City? What Happened to the 21st-Century City?
And how we can save it.
Mar 12, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wagner
A Portrait of the Artist as I Hate You A Portrait of the Artist as I Hate You
Mar 12, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Spaide
Who Is In Charge in the Biden White House? Who Is In Charge in the Biden White House?
In The Last Politician, Franklin Foer offers a portrait of an administration at odds with itself.
Mar 11, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Osita Nwanevu
Who Will Win Big at the Oscars? Who Will Win Big at the Oscars?
A Nation reader from American Fiction to The Zone of Interest
Mar 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / The Nation