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September 5, 2017
The Messy Business of Free Speech
What’s missing from Floyd Abrams’s book The Soul of the First Amendment.
Gara LaMarche
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July 20, 2017
The Poetics of Jazz
A new book presents an alternative aesthetic history of jazz—and is also a challenge to all music critics.
David B. Hobbs
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June 28, 2017
Socialism’s Past and Future
Axel Honneth’s new book seeks to give renewed meaning to the socialist ideal.
Martin Jay
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June 19, 2017
Mary Gaitskill Remains Open to Opposition
The closest thing we get to a precept in Somebody with a Little Hammer is that we should all try to learn to think for ourselves—and, even then, things can go wrong.
Larissa Pham
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June 5, 2017
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June 1, 2017
The Two Women’s Movements
Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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June 1, 2017
The Quiet Discontent of Sarah Manguso
The essayist and poet has made an art out of concision. But what do her essays leave out?
Charlotte Shane
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May 19, 2017
Factory or Forest, Modernity and Climate Change
In India, the pathology of denial about global warming reveals the real crisis at our door—one of imagination.
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
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May 6, 2017
Women Don’t Need Ivanka Trump’s Fortune-Cookie Feminism
They need her father to stop his harmful policies.
Lucia Graves
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May 3, 2017
The Fight Over Sexual Freedom
Geoffrey Stone’s book is a powerful reminder that the history of sexual equality is one of backlash as well as progress.
Anna North