Barbarian Virtues Barbarian Virtues
James Scott's search for the origins of the state.
Oct 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
The Rage of White Folk The Rage of White Folk
How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.
Sep 27, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Steven Hahn
The Messy Business of Free Speech The Messy Business of Free Speech
What’s missing from Floyd Abrams’s book The Soul of the First Amendment.
Sep 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Gara LaMarche
The Poetics of Jazz The Poetics of Jazz
A new book presents an alternative aesthetic history of jazz—and is also a challenge to all music critics.
Jul 20, 2017 / David B. Hobbs
Socialism’s Past and Future Socialism’s Past and Future
Axel Honneth’s new book seeks to give renewed meaning to the socialist ideal.
Jun 28, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Martin Jay
Mary Gaitskill Remains Open to Opposition 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.
Jun 19, 2017 / Larissa Pham
Al Franken Is Not Running for President Al Franken Is Not Running for President
But his new book is the antidote to Trumpism.
Jun 5, 2017 / Q&A / Joan Walsh
The Two Women’s Movements The Two Women’s Movements
Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
Jun 1, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
The Quiet Discontent of Sarah Manguso The Quiet Discontent of Sarah Manguso
The essayist and poet has made an art out of concision. But what do her essays leave out?
Jun 1, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Shane
Factory or Forest, Modernity and Climate Change 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.
May 19, 2017 / Abhrajyoti Chakraborty