How the Atheist Son of a Jewish Rabbi Created One of the Greatest Libraries of Socialist Literature How the Atheist Son of a Jewish Rabbi Created One of the Greatest Libraries of Socialist Literature
Books with Marx’s handwritten notes; volumes annotated by Lenin; newspaper clippings from displaced Yiddish journalists—Chimen Abramsky’s book collection had it all.
Aug 27, 2015 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Welcome to Earth: Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ Gets the Sci-Fi Treatment Welcome to Earth: Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ Gets the Sci-Fi Treatment
The funny, scathing, and heart-wrenching universe of A Planet for Rent.
Aug 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / André Naffis-Sahely
August 27, 1963: W.E.B. Du Bois Dies August 27, 1963: W.E.B. Du Bois Dies
“A society based on money values may reject such a man as scornfully as one based on the tradition of slavery, but a society based upon character and culture will always welcome hi...
Aug 27, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Give Trump This: The 14th Amendment Has Been Working Overtime Give Trump This: The 14th Amendment Has Been Working Overtime
How healthy is it to found a democracy on this one slender reed?
Aug 26, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Samuel R. Delany Speaks Samuel R. Delany Speaks
The award-winning novelist discusses the intersection of race, sexual identity, and science fiction.
Aug 24, 2015 / Cecilia D’Anastasio
The War on Women in Israel The War on Women in Israel
Sexist laws and institutions threaten all women in Israel, but Arab women are beset from all sides.
Aug 19, 2015 / Samuel Thrope
How a Harper Lee Novel Unfit to Print Was Turned Into Found Money How a Harper Lee Novel Unfit to Print Was Turned Into Found Money
The decision to publish was purely a marketing decision. It turned out to be a shrewd one.
Aug 18, 2015 / Richard Lingeman
August 18, 1958: Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ Is Published in the US August 18, 1958: Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ Is Published in the US
“Lolita by high art transmutes persons, motives and actions which in ordinary life are considered indecent, into objects of delight, compassion and contemplation.”
Aug 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
The Dread of Loneliness The Dread of Loneliness
Self-definition and equality in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Aug 17, 2015 / Vivian Gornick
Julian Bond Built Coalitions, Practiced Solidarity, and Showed Us the Future Julian Bond Built Coalitions, Practiced Solidarity, and Showed Us the Future
When the civil-rights leader was nominated for vice president in 1968, we got a glimpse of the new politics.
Aug 17, 2015 / John Nichols