Articles

Reviews

• Susan Salter Reynolds on The Tree of the Doves by Christopher Merrill December 10th, 2011

  “Discoveries: Christopher Merrill”

• Jennifer Egan on Catch-22 by Joseph Heller December 24th, 2011

  “Rereading Catch-22”

• Laurie Benenson on Decision Points by George W. Bush July 2nd, 2011

  “Legacy”

• Alec Ash on Ai Weiwei’s Blog by Ai Weiwei September 13th, 2011

  “The Last Rant”

• Walter Benn Michaels on What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren June 13th, 2011

  “Black and White”

• Casey Walker on The Triumph of the City and Aerotropolis by Edward Glaeser, John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay May 30th, 2011

  “Keys to the City”

• Stephanie Elizondo Griest on Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy May 26th, 2011

  “Narcocorridos”

• Xujun Eberlein on Mao’s Great Famine and Tombstone by Frank Dikotter and Yang Jisheng January 31st, 2012

  “The Teacher of the Future”

• Elbert Ventura on Hollywood Left and Right by Steven J. Ross November 22nd, 2011

  “Celebrity Politicians”

• Jon Wiener on How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism by Eric Hobsbawm November 4th, 2011

  “The Age of Revolution”

• Steven J. Ross on Army of Phantoms by J. Hoberman September 27th, 2011

  “The Paranoid Style”

• Jervey Tervalon on The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Erich Origen and Gan Golan September 23rd, 2011

  “Labor Power”

• Gordon Fellman on No Enemies, No Hatred by Liu Xiaobo March 9th, 2012

  “Dissent”

• Brian Reed on Taller When Prone and Activist Poetics by Les Murray and John Kinsella February 22nd, 2012

  “One Ireland, Plus At Least Six Great Britains”

• William Flesch on and by and October 4th, 2011

  “Liberalism in Flight”

• Mary Cuddehe on The Femicide Machine by Sergio González Rodríguez May 4th, 2012

  “The Most Dangerous Place in the Western Hemisphere”

• Jon Wiener on Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner May 8th, 2012

  “J. Edgar”

• David Winters on The Faith of the Faithless by Simon Critchley May 25th, 2012

  “The Secularist's Dogma”

• Gerry Canavan on 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson June 14th, 2012

  “Struggle Forever”

• Lauren Elkin on Beyond the Tower by John Marriott June 16th, 2012

  “A Redemptive History of East London”

• Eric Been on I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Mark Dery June 21st, 2012

  “This American Gothic”

• Swati Pandey on Manhunt and The Hunt for KSM by Peter Bergen, Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer July 8th, 2012

  “War By Manhunt: Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ”

• Steven Brint on College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco July 29th, 2012

  “Beyond the Ivy Islands”

• Cécile Alduy on The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Élisabeth Badinter August 5th, 2012

  “The Organic-Zucchini-Baby-Food-Mixing Streamline Mommy”

• Liam Julian on Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo August 3rd, 2012

  “The Branding on the Wall”

• Ali Pechman on Red Rock by Jonathan Campbell August 20th, 2012

  “Rock & Roll in China”

• Peter Jenkins on A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran by Trita Parsi August 30th, 2012

  “Iran and the Nuclear Question”

• Bruce Robbins on The Crisis of the European Union: A Response by Jürgen Habermas September 20th, 2012

  “Europe on the Brink: Habermas and the Currency Crisis ”

• Timothy Spangler on Wealth and Poverty and Free Market Revolution by George Gilder, Yaron Brook and Don Watkins September 20th, 2012

  “The New New Capitalism”

• Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover on The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings by Alain Badiou September 24th, 2012

  “History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings”

• Stephen F. Rohde on Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner October 1st, 2012

  “Is a Taco a Sandwich?: Interpreting the Law”

• Tom Gallagher on Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow October 7th, 2012

  “Endless War: Rachel Maddow and America’s Power Addiction”

• John Cline on The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen October 8th, 2012

  “Bananas Royale”

• Frederick Deknatel on Obama and the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges October 22nd, 2012

  “Obama’s Foreign Policy Crossroads”

• Joseph Dana on Occupation Diaries by Raja Shehadeh October 28th, 2012

  “Homeland No More: The End of the Two State Solution”

• K.C. Cole on Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Fate of the Species by Daniel Kahneman and Fred Guterl November 3rd, 2012

  “How To Save Ourselves From Extinction (One System at a Time)”

• Kaya Genç on Chavs by Owen Jones November 5th, 2012

  “Plebs and Chavs: On Textual Representation of Class”

• Michael Kammen on I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics. Interviews with Jon Wiener by Jon Wiener November 6th, 2012

  “Gore Vidal Redux”

• Malcolm Harris on Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott November 7th, 2012

  “Anarchish: James C. Scott’s “Two Cheers for Anarchism””

• Andrew Gumbel on How We Forgot the Cold War by Jon Wiener November 17th, 2012

  “How America Didn’t Win the Cold War (A Travelogue)”

• Michael Kammen on Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left by Martin Duberman November 29th, 2012

  “The Insubordinate Historian: The Life and Legacy of Howard Zinn”

• Bryan A. Garner on America’s Unwritten Constitution by Akhil Reed Amar December 9th, 2012

  “America’s Nonexistent Constitutions”

• Jeffery Atik on Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber January 1st, 2013

  “The Cliff and the Jubilee: On David Graeber's 'Debt'”

• Lori Kozlowski on Working and Not Working by Studs Terkel and D. W. Gibson January 9th, 2013

  “Working and Not Working: American Tradition, American Peril”

• Sophie Kalkreuth on Atlas by Dung Kai-cheung January 12th, 2013

  “What is Hong Kong? On the Archaeology of an Imaginary City”

• Frederick Deknatel on Syria by David Lesch January 29th, 2013

  “The Syria I Knew: On the Fall of the House of Assad”

• David Biale on Revelations and In God’s Shadow by Elaine Pagels and Michael Walzer February 6th, 2013

  “Why the Bible has No Place in Politics, or Vice Versa”

• Andrew Benedict-Nelson on The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver February 20th, 2013

  “What's In a Prediction? On Nate Silver and the Science of Probability”

• Tom Hayden on The CIA in Hollywood by Tricia Jenkins February 24th, 2013

  “The CIA Goes To Hollywood: How America’s Spy Agency Infiltrated the Big Screen (and Our Minds)”

• Michael W. Clune on Masters of the Universe by Daniel Stedman Jones February 26th, 2013

  “What Was Neoliberalism?”

• Alexia Nader on Farewell, Fred Voodoo and The Big Truck That Went By by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz March 22nd, 2013

  “Hello, Haiti”

• Michael Kammen on Merit by Joseph F. Kett March 23rd, 2013

  “Winning and Whining, or How to Get Your Just Deserts in America”

• Zach Dorfman on The Undivided Past by David Cannadine April 8th, 2013

  “The String in the Maze: On What It Means to Be Human”

• Eric Hayot on Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World and The Other Face of the Moon by Claude Levi-Strauss and Claude Levi-Strauss April 14th, 2013

  “Through the Mirror: Claude Lévi-Strauss in Japan”

• Kelly Candaele on The Sixties by Todd Gitlin April 21st, 2013

  “The Foam on a Sea of Rage: The Weather Underground, "The Company You Keep," and What to Read Instead ”

• Tom Gallagher on Trampling Out the Vintage by Frank Bardacke April 21st, 2013

  “Waiting For Chavez: The Farm Workers Union and the Future of Labor Organizing”

• Alex Kane on Israel Has Moved by Diana Pinto April 28th, 2013

  “Israel Unmoored: The Fault Lines of the Jewish State”

• Jim Lafferty on Out of Order by Sandra Day O'Connor April 28th, 2013

  “Sandra Day O’Connor Explains the High Court and Why It Matters”

• Adam Morris on Cypherpunks by Julian Assange April 28th, 2013

  “Fair Warning: Julian Assange's "Cypherpunks"”

• Timothy Spangler on How to Make a Million Dollars An Hour by Les Leopold May 3rd, 2013

  “Getting to the Truth about Hedge Funds”

• Jan Mieszkowski on A Short History of Nuclear Folly and Napalm: An American Biography by Rudolph Herzog and Robert M. Neer May 7th, 2013

  “The Militarized Imagination: On Napalm and Nuclear Warfare”

• Jon Wiener on FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman May 12th, 2013

  “FDR: Good for the Jews?”

Essays

• The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future by Jennifer Egan , Sven Birkerts, Julie Cline, Meghan Daum, Ben Ehrenreich, Stephen Elliott, Sesshu Foster, Cullen Gallagher, Chris Kraus, Laila Lalami, Dinah Lenney, Ben Loory, Morgan Macgregor, Mary Otis, Gary Phillips, Padget Powell, Jane Smiley, Mark Haskell Smith, Ayelet Waldman, Casey Walker, Matt Weiland and Antoine Wilson December 23rd, 2011
• Magicland by Laurie Winer July 1st, 2011
• Autumn of the Empire by Joshua Clover July 18th, 2011
• The Great Shock by Brian Collins October 17th, 2011
• The Educational Lottery by Steven Brint November 15th, 2011
• Dreaming in Chinese by Richard Wolin March 1st, 2012
• Smothered: Part 3 by John Kaye June 24th, 2012
• Supreme Hubris: Theories of Judicial Activism by Don Franzen June 29th, 2012