Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’

Nathan Englander's third novel tries to satirize unthinking religiosity, lazy secularism, and the nascent gig economy—but fails to impress.

Nathan Goldman

Mange Meat

Alicia Mountain

Masters of the Uterus

Conservative men celebrate the restoration of their natural role.

Tom Tomorrow

John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels

His speculative new novel, The Wall, imagines a dystopian future but offers us a warning about our present. 

Laila Lalami

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy

In her new book, King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent situates the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a longer history of black activism and social-democratic thinking.

Robert Greene II

David Treuer’s Monumental History of Native American Life in the 20th Century

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee tells the story of Native life as it flourished amidst hardship.

E. Tammy Kim

Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off

Can we escape the Internet?

Kevin Lozano

The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

Timothy Shenk

The Inescapable Politics of Climate Change

What we need to know now is not what climate change will do in the future, but what we should about it in the present.

Alyssa Battistoni

Why Fascists Storm Bookstores

A spate of attacks from DC to Berkeley show how far the right will go to shut down free expression.  

Elizabeth King