Books and Ideas

Can Spotify Be Stopped?

Can Spotify Be Stopped? Can Spotify Be Stopped?

The streaming service has completely changed what it means to make and listen to music. What can be done to reverse its enormous influence?

May 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Mitch Therieau

“Poetry can push you to see your own courage or strengths. It’s sort of like a refueling station when you're reading,” says the anonymous creator of @poetryisnotaluxury.

The Creator of @PoetryIsNotALuxury on Their “Mixtape” for the Moment The Creator of @PoetryIsNotALuxury on Their “Mixtape” for the Moment

A conversation with the anonymous creator of the popular account about their new collection of poems.

May 6, 2025 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

Joshua Clover, 2015.

The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025) The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)

How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.

May 6, 2025 / Obituary / Juliana Spahr

Nation Poetry

from Small Wars Manual from "Small Wars Manual"

May 1, 2025 / Poems / Chris Santiago

Shulamith Firestone

Tender, Compassionate, Crushing: The Fiction of Shulamith Firestone Tender, Compassionate, Crushing: The Fiction of Shulamith Firestone

In Airless Spaces, the feminist theorist dramatizes what happens when capitalist alienation makes everybody miserable.

May 1, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Zoe Dubno

Nation Poetry

Dad Bod Dad Bod

Apr 30, 2025 / Poems / Tomás Q. Morín

The crew of “Missing” arriving for the screening at the 35th Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 1982.

Chile in Our Hearts Chile in Our Hearts

John Dinges’s revisionist account of Missing.

Apr 29, 2025 / Steven Volk

Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics

Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics

Rental House, a novel of marriage and manners, tries to make sense of how a blended family negotiates conflicts of race and class.

Apr 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Camille Bromley

A woman wearing a sweatshirt for the QAnon conspiracy theory gestures during a pro-Trump rally on October 11, 2020, in Ronkonkoma, New York.

Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction

In Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, he attempts to diagnose the apocalyptic nature of conservatism around the world.

Apr 28, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Nathan Taylor Pemberton

Nation Poetry

Amistad Gambusia Amistad Gambusia

Apr 25, 2025 / Poems / Cecily Parks

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