Inside the Wild Universe of Artist Jacolby Satterwhite

Combining video, performance, and music, his work tackles themes of sex, labor, public space, and the body.

Tiana Reid

Revolution & #Resistance: The Life and Times of Lauren Duca

She wants to lead a youth movement, but her first book says more about a media ecosystem that helped produce her than radical action.

Haley Mlotek

The Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Climate Change: Worker Power

Capitalists created the climate crisis. But a low-carbon labor movement can help solve it.

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos

From ‘outside voices, please’

Valerie Hsiung

Lindsey Graham, Legal Scholar

Calvin Trillin

Up in Smoke

Vaping manufactures hit their target market.

Paul Karasik

The Songs of Canceled Men

A new book revisits the lives of artists like James Brown, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra and asks how music criticism can reckon with the lives of immoral artists.

Joe Bucciero

Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology

In his short story collection Exhalation, he builds social worlds where every character and object is deeply intertwined in history and in future possibility.

Stephen Kearse

Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ Is a Startling Study of Power

As the contemporary film landscape heralds the coming of a class war, Diop’s beautiful movie reckons with capital and labor in groundbreaking fashion.

Namwali Serpell

How Should We Remember the Puritans?

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.

Andrew Delbanco