A New New White Man: Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” Turns 25
Joseph Darda on the enduring importance of Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” as the pathbreaking collection turns 25....
Somebody’s Protest Novel
Chabon apologizes for Israel even when he’s critiquing it. But in 2007, he wrote a novel with an alternate history that sheds a light on the actual present....
Shades of Beige
Shannon Luders-Manuel talks to Tara Betts about her anthology "The Beiging of America," co-edited with Cathy J. Schlund-Vials and Sean Frederick Forbes....
David Shields’s “Reality Hunger” in the Age of Trump; or, How to Write Now
Stephen Marche reflects on David Shields’s “Reality Hunger” in the age of Trump and the post-fact....
Gaming Gone Queer
A new collection of essays probes how queerness intersects with the video game as an industry and an art form....
The Internet Wars Come to Print
A new book on the internet memes and curious logic of modern agitprop conservatism....
Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Industry
Did the professional managerial class give us the alt-right? Catherine Liu on Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies."...
Not with a Bang, but a Retweet: The Rise of the Alt-Right
Jacqui Shine reviews one of the first histories of the alt-right....
The Uses of Beauty: On “Daughters of the Dust” and Diasporic Inheritance
The Sea Islands might seem like a small place. But every point in diaspora is the cutting edge if you have the nerve to touch it....
When Progress Ebbs: Career Women at the Turn of the 20th Century
Radha Vatsal muses on the shifting contours of social progress for women....
Cottage Industry: On “Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture”
In "Dead Pledges," Annie McClanahan uncovers how cultural production after 2008 registers a new crisis subjectivity in the wake of the mortgage meltdown....
Learning from Mistakes: Howard S. Becker’s “Evidence”
Ben Merriman reviews Howard S. Becker’s “Evidence,” on the conduct of sociological research....
