The Wild Lives of Cargo Ships The Wild Lives of Cargo Ships
A capacious new history examines the remaking of the the global economy through the story a single barge.
Jun 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
A Generation of Injustice at Tyson Foods A Generation of Injustice at Tyson Foods
Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.
Jun 5, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Caroline Tracey
When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance
Neither Klein and Thompson nor many of their critics on the left offer a robust strategy for actually building affordable homes. Here’s one that has been proven to work.
May 7, 2025 / Mike Gecan
Feminism Against Itself Feminism Against Itself
Sophie Lewis grapples with the ways the feminist movement has harbored prejudices and abetted wrongdoing in Enemy Feminisims.
Mar 27, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Grace Byron
The Art of Separating: A Conversation With Haley Mlotek The Art of Separating: A Conversation With Haley Mlotek
The Nation spoke with the author No Fault, a genre-bending examination of marriage and divorce that is one-part cultural history and one-part memoir.
Mar 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Gracie Hadland
Why “The Living Mountain” Endures Why “The Living Mountain” Endures
Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.
Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell
Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone? Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone?
The political theorist Lowry Pressly thinks we’ve abandoned a more creative and humanist definition of the concept.
Feb 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Cora Currier
The Making and Remaking of Karl Marx’s “Capital” The Making and Remaking of Karl Marx’s “Capital”
In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist masterpiece by going back to basics.
Feb 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Alyssa Battistoni
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
Jan 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner
Isabella Hammad and the Politics of Recognition Isabella Hammad and the Politics of Recognition
In her capacious book of criticism, Recognizing the Stranger, Isabella Hammad asks: “How large is the gulf between us?”
Dec 16, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Abdelrahman ElGendy