An Astonishing New Cancer Memoir Brings Radical Politics to the Genre

Anne Boyer’s The Undying insists on a Marxist and feminist reading of the disease, opposing narratives confined to individual triumph or tragedy.

Alex Ronan

Have Americans Become More Conspiratorial?

In their new book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum argue that a new form of conspiracy thinking is consuming our culture in dangerous and alarming ways. But is it?

Sophia Rosenfeld

Naomi Klein: ‘We Are Seeing the Beginnings of the Era of Climate Barbarism’

The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes, and how she finds hope.

Natalie Hanman

One of America’s First Graphic Novels Was by a Blacklisted Socialist

William Gropper’s recently republished 1930 work Alay-Oop is an exciting addition to the comics canon.

Jillian Steinhauer

President Trump vs. an Asteroid

 

Good thing there’s nothing more important going on we should all be paying attention to.

Tom Tomorrow

Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen

Naomi Klein Knows a Green New Deal Is Our Only Hope Against Climate Catastrophe

In her new book, Klein argues that our current crisis cannot be separated from a long history and brutal present of human exploitation.

Lynne Feeley

What Inspired ‘Lolita’?

Sarah Weinman’s new book traces the true crime that influenced Nabokov and the writing of his novel.

Jennifer Wilson

We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

The Arnautoff murals in San Francisco have been denounced as demeaning and triggering, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

Robin D.G. Kelley

Single-Payer Health Care Is the First Step in the Revolution

Timothy Faust’s new book is part history, part manifesto, and part irreverent tour guide to America’s deeply flawed health insurance system.

Zachary Siegel