The Long and Grim Road to ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’ The Long and Grim Road to ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’
Steven Luxenberg’s new book offers a vivid account of the events that led to the ruling.
Jul 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / David Cole
Namwali Serpell’s Postcolonial Epic Namwali Serpell’s Postcolonial Epic
The Old Drift tells the multigenerational story of Zambia coming into being.
Jul 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Nawal Arjini
Foreign-Policy Decision Making Foreign-Policy Decision Making
Conflicting views are heard. The mood is tense. Around the president advisers cluster. But at the end he sticks to his approach— His formula of ignorance plus bluster.
Jul 2, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy
Plato, Hippocrates, and Aristotle laid the foundations on which centuries of sexism were built.
Jul 1, 2019 / Christia Mercer
It Doesn’t Matter Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall It Doesn’t Matter Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall
Infighting over ownership of the riots obscures their significance as a messy, spontaneous, diverse rebellion.
Jun 30, 2019 / Morgan M. Page
What We All Owe to Gay Liberation What We All Owe to Gay Liberation
Stonewall shows us what fighting back looked like in an era when state power was hostile.
Jun 27, 2019 / Emily Douglas and The Nation
Ann Quin’s Surrealist Novel ‘Berg’ Annihilates All Expectation Ann Quin’s Surrealist Novel ‘Berg’ Annihilates All Expectation
The newly reissued 1964 book is a hallucinatory mix of crime fiction, vaudeville, and modernist experimentation.
Jun 26, 2019 / Shane Anderson
‘The Farm’ Looks at a Future Where Pregnancy Is Outsourced to the Poor ‘The Farm’ Looks at a Future Where Pregnancy Is Outsourced to the Poor
In Joanne Ramos’s debut novel about a venture-capitalist funded surrogacy clinic, class war begins in the womb.
Jun 19, 2019 / Noah Flora
Ingeborg Bachmann’s Experimental Gem ‘Malina’ Is a Novel Like None Other Ingeborg Bachmann’s Experimental Gem ‘Malina’ Is a Novel Like None Other
The Austrian writer’s 1971 book is one of the most potent renderings of female consciousness European literature has produced.
Jun 18, 2019 / Dustin Illingworth
