A Guide to Eye Communication A Guide to Eye Communication
May 5, 2020 / Peter Kuper
Letters From the May 18/25, 2020, Issue Letters From the May 18/25, 2020, Issue
Neither snow nor rain nor Covid-19… On holding your nose… Progress v. progressive values… Essential tributes… No more neoliberalism…
May 5, 2020 / Our Readers
Who Counts? Who Doesn’t? Who Counts? Who Doesn’t?
The Trump administration’s stumbling response to this crisis.
The Making of the Radical Republicans The Making of the Radical Republicans
How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
The Inner Life of American Communism The Inner Life of American Communism
Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
The Long Shadow of Cultural Anthropology The Long Shadow of Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and their circle sought to show the fallacy of biological and physical difference, but they also created new forms of categorization that reinforced thei...
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
Sarah Broom’s New Orleans Saga Sarah Broom’s New Orleans Saga
In her new memoir, Broom reconstructs not only her family’s history in New Orleans but also the larger arc of black experience in the South.
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Lovia Gyarkye
Mary Gaitskill’s Art of Loneliness Mary Gaitskill’s Art of Loneliness
Through her portraits of solitude, Gaitskill forces us to recognize those moments of subtle connection.
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty
How Should Unions Organize? How Should Unions Organize?
In A Collective Bargain, Jane McAlevey makes the case for strike-ready unions and whole worker organizing. But in an age of globalized economies and climate change, is this enough?
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / E. Tammy Kim
The Worlds of Edward Said The Worlds of Edward Said
An exile who made the world his home, Said infused his literary style with a cosmopolitan ease and his political commitments with a cosmopolitan ethics.
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rashid Khalidi