Books and Ideas

Meredith Tax

Meredith Tax, 1942–2022 Meredith Tax, 1942–2022

The tireless organizer, feminist pioneer, and relentless coalition builder never let up.

Oct 31, 2022 / Alix Kates Shulman

Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature

Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature

The poet’s memoir joins a growing body of work chronicling the personal and political odysseys undocumented Americans face. 

Oct 31, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jesús A. Rodríguez

The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up

The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up

How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.

Oct 28, 2022 / Peter Kornbluh

How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis?

How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis? How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis?

A conversation with sociologist Dylan Riley about the state of left politics, defending social theory as a political tool, and his new book Microverses.

Oct 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ishan Desai-Geller

The Shadows of Stanley Cavell

The Shadows of Stanley Cavell The Shadows of Stanley Cavell

A posthumous collection of essays, Here and Now: Sites of Philosophy, reveals both what was insightful and what was profoundly lacking in the project of ordinary language philosoph...

Oct 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / John-Baptiste Oduor

Nation Poetry

the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing

  A shadow bisects another, which is to say it enlarges itself The body doubles what it cannot hold I turned on the TV to drown out my heartbeat This hefty crime: to obscure a…

Oct 27, 2022 / Poems / Jennifer S. Cheng

Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working.

Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working. Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working.

Kyle Spencer’s new book Raising Them Right shows how the conservative establishment has recruited and trained new generations of activists over the last 60 years.

Oct 26, 2022 / Q&A / Julian Epp

Bad Gays cover, with authors

Learning From the “Bad Gays” of History Learning From the “Bad Gays” of History

A conversation with Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller about queer crooks, villains, and anti-heros, and what we might learn from the sinister side of gay politics.

Oct 26, 2022 / Q&A / Max Fox

Mike Davis.

Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022

A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.

Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener

Indiana University professor Ross Gay

Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy” Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy”

A conversation with the poet Ross Gay about Inciting Joy, an exploration of joy as a critical emotion that “gets us to love, as a practice of survival."

Oct 25, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

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