Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking
When we read a book like America Is in the Heart, we have the chance to be not just readers of American history’s horrors, but its witnesses and inheritors.
May 1, 2019 / Elaine Castillo
Saidiya Hartman’s Astounding History of the Forgotten Sexual Modernists in 20th-Century Black Life Saidiya Hartman’s Astounding History of the Forgotten Sexual Modernists in 20th-Century Black Life
In her new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, she looks at everyday life for urban black women and in the process pioneers a stirring new way to write history.
May 1, 2019 / Sam Huber
Ilhan Omar vs. the Outrage Machine Ilhan Omar vs. the Outrage Machine
No observation goes unpunished.
Apr 30, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
Can Humanitarianism Address Inequality? Can Humanitarianism Address Inequality?
In his new book, French anthropologist Didier Fassin argues that if humanitarians are to save life they need to rethink the global structures that sustain it.
Apr 30, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
At the Frontiers of Surveillance Capitalism At the Frontiers of Surveillance Capitalism
Silicon Valley firms don’t want to simply monitor your behavior; they plan to shape it, too.
Apr 30, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick
Claire Denis’s Fleshy Sci-Fi Film ‘High Life’ Is Shocking and Soothing Claire Denis’s Fleshy Sci-Fi Film ‘High Life’ Is Shocking and Soothing
Following a group of death-row inmates in a spaceship prison, the film dares to infuse light where it seems only darkness can prevail.
Apr 29, 2019 / Cassie da Costa
In the Maze of Love: Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee’s Intricate Tales of Romance In the Maze of Love: Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee’s Intricate Tales of Romance
The partnership between the South Korean director and actress in recent years has led to an endlessly analyzable body of films about the darker sides of modern courtship.
Apr 26, 2019 / Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Comic Book Catharsis: A Q&A With Brian Fies on His Powerful Graphic Novel About California Wildfires Comic Book Catharsis: A Q&A With Brian Fies on His Powerful Graphic Novel About California Wildfires
His new memoir, A Fire Story, details what happened when the Tubbs Fire turned his and his neighbors’ lives upside down.
Apr 26, 2019 / Elena Goukassian
Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans
“The more I have read his writings, the more I have come to admire and respect him not just as an historian but as a person.”
Apr 26, 2019 / Sebastiaan Faber
Jon Snow Would Vote Against Brexit Jon Snow Would Vote Against Brexit
As in Game of Thrones, Brexit’s villains are extremists fixated on short-term personal gain at the expense of everyone else.
Apr 26, 2019 / Peter Biskind